Mind Full Change

Collaboration with Simon Cozzens

2019

Dimensions vary (4'x4'x6" each)

Pigment, motion sensors, steel chains, motors, time

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Conversations about anxiety and trauma often involve concepts of time. We ruminate on the traumas of our past and stress about possible futures. This is a natural survival mechanism of the human brain, though it often comes at the cost of happiness and daily well-being. As we spend our mental lives in the uncontrollable past and unpredictable futures, we forget that we have control in the present.

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Mind Full Change invites the viewer to consider anxiety for what it is in physiological terms: activity in regions of the brain responsible for memory, emotion, and fight-or-flight survival responses. By sitting in a chair and allowing oneself to simply observe, the past and future are set aside to regain a connection to the present. As the viewer explores this moment and allows attention to focus on immediate sensory stimuli, they see a representation of their own transforming brain.The yellow-red brain regions indicating anxiety slowly give way to calm, relaxed blue. In this way, participating in this work is quite literally a practice in mental healing.