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Pineal

20 cm x 15 cm

8" x 6"

2020

mixed paint media on panel

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Pineal is painted on a 1/2" medium density fiberboard panel (MDF). This painting is ready to hang in either vertical orientation.

 

Pineal is from a group of small paintings that begin as a circle of manipulated media. Media is add to this circle until there is a "rupture". Once the rupture occurs the media is further manipulated until it feels right.

 

Pineal "a pea-sized conical mass of tissue behind the third ventricle of the brain, secreting a hormone-like substance in some mammals."

 

"The pineal gland was once dubbed the “third eye,” which originated for many reasons, ranging from its location deep in the center of the brain to its connection to light. Also, the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes was fascinated with the pineal gland."

 

"The pineal gland was described as the “Seat of the Soul” by Renee Descartes and it is located in the center of the brain. The main function of the pineal gland is to receive information about the state of the light-dark cycle from the environment and convey this information to produce and secrete the hormone melatonin."

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Uploaded on October 2, 2020
Taken on September 14, 2020