The human body is a complex yet organic system, synchronically orchestrated by the acoustics of breath and an influx of sense perceptions. We don’t realize how each breath inhaled and exhaled in perfect rhythmicity performs an ensemble of happenings within to keep us alive, all through a carefully crafted human mechanism. Breath is not the only element humans intake. We’re flooded by a range of activities that we are bound to observe, perceive, experience, memorize, and express through our sensory organs and the network of nervous systems. Breaths, sounds, tastes, textures, and scents are all bombarded onto us as a chaotic charisma that we reorder into a harmonic frequency of pulsations and perceptions.
Artists are sensitive absorbers of the human body's automated process, forming their own linear odyssey that reflects chaos and order. Physicists attempt to formulate this inflow from the materiality of nature whereas philosophers intuit it from her intelligentsia. The body is a receptive instrument of this inflow and artists, physicists and philosophers trace this flow through the dimensions of the mind. Patterns of symmetry and randomness are observed in these explorations. Just as a classical musician who follows a set musical scale as the base template ornaments it with varying intonations or as a visual artist experiencing the textural organicity of nature in its coarseness weaves it as an archetype of composite forms and colors. The intake could be conscious or unconscious, but the mind cognates it into relational formulas of discovery, insight, awareness, and refinement that builds the cultural evolutionary ethos.
Can there be a convergence between these different streams of knowledge and expressions? Are the processes of an artist, mathematician, physicist, musician, and philosopher analogous?
Finding their cognate and divergent characteristics is the curatorial survey of FLOW INFLOW.
- Jesal Thacker
