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Search ArticlesBrain Food #836: The lightness of paper, the heaviness of stone
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Brain Food #836: The lightness of paper, the heaviness of stone
Thoughts of the day Louise Bourgeois, who was in psychoanalysis for decades, a process that started in 1951 and only ended with the death of her analyst in 1985, was an artist that often excavated her own soul for hidden meaning. This, in turn, led to much of her art, from steam-of-consciousness scribbles on paper to giant motherlike sculptures of spiders.
Brain Food #835: When lists become art
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Brain Food #835: When lists become art
Thoughts of the day Australian-based artist Kenny Pittock worked at a Melbourne supermarket in 2003, partly to sustain his artistic practice. In the end, his job also provided unlikely inspiration for his art. The result was a piece called 52 shopping lists written by people who need milk, recreated intodetailed ceramic reproductions from the originals. All lists are unique, and deeply personal, but also quite similar in their contents.
Brain Food #834: Lists and the messiness of living
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Brain Food #834: Lists and the messiness of living
Thoughts of the day There are countless reasons to justify why our brains love lists, more than what could ever be contained in a list itself. Perhaps making lists is a form of managing chaos, or relieving anxiety. Lists can be vehicles of hope, serving as reminders of what we once thought of as possible. Or vehicles of memory, containers of ideas and thoughts that can be offloaded from our brains, to leave space for something else. “We make lists because we don't want to die,” said Umberto Eco.
Brain Food #833: Our grasp of joy
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Brain Food #833: Our grasp of joy
Thoughts of the day Despite the world’s increased tendency and ability to quantify everything, our feelings remain largely unmeasurable, concealed behind our veil of subjectivity, which no algorithm or hardware can reach. What has been quantified more successfully is the range of emotions a human can experience, which appears to be much more universal. In Pixar’s Inside Out, there are five core emotions that run the main character’s control centre: joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust.
Brain Food #832: The desires that go in design
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