May, 2014 BFA Thesis Introduction “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ― Oscar Wilde Long ago, the planet Earth started vibrating with the first signs of life. It must have been a beautiful land, undisturbed and ideal for the creatures that were about to evolve through millions of years. Many organisms lived and others died through natural selection, but those that persisted led to the creatures that...

I wanted to illustrate the relationship between self and brain through the anatomical brain surrounded by elements of gears or mechanisms, human bodies entangled in a somewhat abstract mixture of nervous system and neurons.

Flowing through a river, down the vein and up the arm, inside the neck, up to the brain, A clogged pore the size of a lump that obstructs...