Blossoming Of Embodiment Poem by Denis Mair

APPRECIATION: Lots of intuition went into making this image. One could say the artist was totally winging it or, as the old barnstormers used to say, maybe "flying by the seat of his pants." This is similar to the surrealist technique of automatic writing, which leaves openings for a kind of mediumship. So in a mythopoetic sense, we can see it as source material for the collective unconscious. Maybe it's telling us that religious mythologies are being reintegrated by individuals. In a context of neuro-correlative studies, we are seeing raw data for the kind of temporary global workspace that the brain sets up during a special kind of self-rewarding activity. Here the activity combines exploratory retrospection, aesthetic evaluation and re-transcription of visual memories. These tie in with shuffling among motor routines that were borrowed to remember prior engagements. At the same time, these functions are linked with higher order reflection in the medial frontal cortex. The integration of all these functions constitutes a provisional workspace to produce such an artwork. Precisely in the irreducibility of such an image, one can read clues to the synergy among brain functions that are being linked and activated. As we build up a neuro- correlative picture of how it is created, we will see more deeply into the meta-artistry of the brain's architecture and functions.