Se>ing Mul+iples (series) Statement Neuroscientists can track our thoughts as they travel the brain's patterned layers of a hundred thousand per square millimeter electro-chemical sheets of neuronal cell bodies. But despite human brain capacity to record, maintain and retrieve information; the brain's mechanics do not store hard codes or recall them perfectly. The real language, the Wet Language of the brain happens in resonant cycles where emotions stimulate heightened levels of consciousness; perception of Meaning is a source for changing brain chemistry and creation of significant memory. Like community, various areas of the brain are dependent on each other. Information processing gathers all sort of unconnected data. Within a scramble of information, the brain can find similarities and make beneficial conclusions. What is Memory then if not a bridge to where our collective consciousness thrives? Se>ing Mul+iples attempts to show similarities that boast our Humanity, encouraging us to look at our sameness rather than our differences. Through the core of a single cell we physically and instinctively share knowledge. Brief (other view) Se>ing Mul+iples offers an encouraging look at our humanity, examining cross-cultural and ages old images to show process formed within a scramble of information and place context. It is our everyday nature, through the core of a single cell and a tangle of neurons that puzzles our existence; events stimulate chemicals changing our brain as memories are created. This process may even go as deep as to affect our genes, giving emphasis to the term ‘collective consciousness’. Physically and instinctively we share knowledge, it offers us direction to rejoice as new generations continue to wonder and bring fresh assessments. Media: Acrylic on Birch plywood panels 12 X 12 X ¼” each. How the work was created, sets of 6 images by line as follows. Description of ideas/images: ”Real Time” from Artist's Notes Scramble of Life - July 2002-03: Line 1-4 set of twenty-four -Saskatchewan - Monsanto GM Canola; my 'crop' of garden flowers, the imagined abstracted dissolution to single cell structure (the source of all life). Line 5,6, 7 set of eighteen –Real/unreal - the too perfect leaf specimen and abstracted as household wallpaper design; CBC 24 hour News channel: 9/11, world hunger, disease, war, pollution, healthcare, biochemistry, AIDS, SARS –numbers theory not 'real time';multi-sided Star = nuclear = power. Line 8 set of six - The Fourth Treasure by American Writer and Neuerologist Todd Shimoda – (story recap) Japanese Calligraphy Artist, suffers debilitating stroke, loss of all faculties except obsession with his Practise. Though the images he makes are mutated versions of certain Kanji symbols the information communicated is not correct or specific yet powerful. The symbol used in this set loosely translates as “in your arms I will rest here" traditional Oriental colours -black,red and gold paint. Line 9 set of six- Museums ransacked and destroyed Iraqi artifacts. Key-hole shape ornately carved image to 'see through' and keep out/or keep safe; ancient abbreviated organic symbol found in Iraqi art similarly in Japanese Calligraphy. Odette Nicholson 2006 Saskatoon