16" x 32", oil & acrylic on canvas
$750
New Neural Pathways
As infants, we learn to associate images with words, and as we develop; sounds, emotions, concepts, people, places, and so on become interconnected in a web of neural pathways. As our real-world awareness augments as we age, new associations (or neural pathways) develop between childhood memories and our new realizations; and it is when these two perspectives collide that we become truly aware of the evolution of our mental development thus far. This painting captures, symbolically, the moments before and after we become aware of our maturity.