Perception as the title suggests is my artwork that delves into the intricacies of conscious experience. The canvas measures 24 x 36 inches and is adorned with acrylic colors and jute thread highlights. The painting is divided into four sections, three of which are vertical and one horizontal section at the bottom.
The first vertical section, moving from right to left, is a two-dimensional flat image that acts as a source of light captured by our eyes. The central and horizontal section portrays the anatomy of the eyes and brain, which are used as tools for visual processing. Through the eyes, sensory signals traverse, and the brain acts as a bridge between mechanism and perception.
The central area displays how the image is captured by both eyes and projected as a real, inverted, reversed, and diminished image on the retina. The red, green, and blue triangles, along with black and white horizontal stripes on either side of the image, can be identified as colored and black and white receptors on the retina, responsible for converting light entering our eyes into electrical signals.
Moving on to the red horizontal section, we see how the electrical signals are carried by optical nerve fibers for decoding into the visual processing center in the brain. Optic nerves from both eyes intersect and move to either hemisphere of the brain. The jute thread symbolizes the nerve pathways to the brain, while the golden and silver rectangles represent processing in the left and right side of the brain.
The last section is the final image perceived by the brain at a conscious level from inside out. Although the capturing and processing part of the image is done through ambiguous electrical signals from sensory sources, the final image is a perception of a central consciousness in three dimensions of space and time. Every perception is unique and interpreted as per pragmatic analogy and experience of the individual.
Perception, attempt to portray the essence of conscious experience and an illustration of the complexity of the human mind and art.
