Art encourages consciousness to relax the apartheid it normally enforces between these three faculties. It allows us to imagine “what if?” scenarios and to treat the impossible as real. Ambiguity and confusion – anathema to workaday logics – become aesthetic qualities to savour. And art itself produces feedback loops and interference between our own memories, observations and imaginings and those of others. Imagined, Observed, Remembered is an encyclopedic project that uses illustration to investigate, alter and expand consciousness.
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