work
The bicameral mind
| category | Drawing |
| subject | Human figure, Political / Social |
| tags | god, adam, michelangelo, brain, skull, drawing, mind, consciousness |
| base | 40 cm |
| height | 60 cm |
| depth | 2 cm |
| year | 2020 |
pastel on wood
The divine moment when God gave human beings life and purpose.
At least that's what most people say. But there could be another meaning, something deeper. Something hidden, perhaps. A metaphor…
It took five hundred years for someone to notice something hidden in plain sight.
It was a doctor who noticed the shape of the human brain.
The message being that the divine gift does not come from a higher power, but from our own minds.
This artwork was inspired by Julian Jaynes’s “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”.
It is perfectly suited to our time. It captures the narcissism of the human experience in believing it is greater than its physical self, sitting aside wishful thinking in exchange of empirical truth, desperately trying to figure out if consciousness is something real or just an illusion.
The divine moment when God gave human beings life and purpose.
At least that's what most people say. But there could be another meaning, something deeper. Something hidden, perhaps. A metaphor…
It took five hundred years for someone to notice something hidden in plain sight.
It was a doctor who noticed the shape of the human brain.
The message being that the divine gift does not come from a higher power, but from our own minds.
This artwork was inspired by Julian Jaynes’s “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”.
It is perfectly suited to our time. It captures the narcissism of the human experience in believing it is greater than its physical self, sitting aside wishful thinking in exchange of empirical truth, desperately trying to figure out if consciousness is something real or just an illusion.
