So though I know pre-dawn running through woods frequented by coyotes and bears and possible demons isn’t exactly healthy, it’s healthier than following my mind where it was headed. That’s one of the problems with antidepressants, I’ve heard: they make you feel well enough to kill yourself. The bad news was that, unlike a month before, I was able to get out of bed and potentially act. The good news was that, unlike a month before, I was able to get out of bed. It felt like bad but convincing outside counsel. I didn’t like thinking about all the possible ways to die, didn’t like imagining how quickly it could be done-and, most of all, I didn’t like that there was something comforting in the thought of suicide. It was my thoughts, after all, that were suicidal, I told myself, not me. What was bad, though, were the thoughts I was having, thoughts I had hoped would go away once the pills dissolved into my system. Yesterday morning, I did just that and got five hours. When he prescribed them last week, my doctor told me that if I wanted any chance of sleep, I should take the antidepressants right after waking up in the morning. An animal I’m reasonably certain is a possum-and if not a possum, definitely a demon-creeps through the leaf litter 40 yards ahead of me.Īccording to a sign I passed a mile ago, the park is closed until dawn, but these are the Georgia mountains-there’s no one here but me and that possum (or demon), the hour being, depending on your perspective, either so late or so early that any possible mischief has gone to bed. Soon, though, I’ll be on the unlit dirt trail-that’s-barely-a-trail that skirts the Nottely River. It’s 5:10 in the morning, and the concrete path I’m running is illuminated, barely, by lamps filled with at least a year’s worth of dead moths. see more project submissions from our readers here.The darkness is dangerous. Ribbons are attached to 120 ropes which are then hung diagonally across the ceilingĭesignboom has received this project from our ‘ DIY submissions ‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. these were then hung diagonally across the ceiling of the gallery - letting ribbons cascade all the way down. Patterson’s assistant kina park was integral in devising a way to involve over 75 museum volunteers to build the work by cutting and organizing ribbons, then attaching them to 120 ropes. The installation is a direct visualization of the artist’s synesthetic experience when listening to music all in all, this interactive installation successfully affects all five senses there is the touch of the ribbon on one’s skin, the sight of flickering light and projected imagery, the sound of classical music, and clean scent of a forest. on the other, a light fragrance of pine and fir fills up the space to remind visitors of the forest scent after rainfall. on one hand, videos of swaying branches, falling rain, and rushing water are projected upon the dense mass of hanging ribbons. Wanting to enhance the senses of sight, sound, and touch as one walked through pathless woods, patterson has collaborated with projection designer adam larsen and scent artist beau rhee. The sense of touch is maximized by the satin texture of the colorful ribbons in this new world, senses are encouraged to overlap - exaclty like the artist’s synesthetic condition. therefore, when walking through patterson’s ‘pathless woods’, visitors are immersed in an unusual sensory experience - forcing them to leave reality and enter another one. while listening to the music, she visualizes lines of blue and green surrounding a red center - an image created with satin ribbons. One of patterson’s influences for the pathless woods installation is composer michael gandolfi’s ‘garden of cosmic speculation’. Pathless woods is an interactive and colorful installation that reflects a synesthetic experience of the artist she continues to explore synesthetic environments with ‘pathless woods’, a colorful installation that began with her acclaimed 2013 project ‘graced with light’ at grace cathedral in san francisco. trained as an architect and theater production designer, this unique combination of senses has led to an artistic practice hovering somewhere between the theatrical and experiential. Artist anne patterson has synesthesia, meaning that her sensory perceptions overlap when she hears sound, she sees color.
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