I am working on an installation called brain Trees and I have created 18 different baubles each containing a different kind of idea.
I am now researching on the morphology of ideas for my next installation.
I recommended your explanation provided in the following link
https://hbfwarren.com/tag/morphology-of-ideas/
Best Regards Holly B. F. Warren
Holly, that's an enormous and interesting question. I suppose there is a huge amount of sorts of ideas, and how you categorize them would depend on the criteria chosen for sorting them into classes. Some notions to consider are conscious and unconscious cognition, the interdependency of reason and emotion, the unity of action and perception, and the emergence of cognition from the interaction of an organism with its environment. Perhaps a useful stategy would be to distinguish between verbal, visual, musical, mathematical, and somatic thinking, among other sorts, although these often share the same underlying multisensory, experience-based memories.
I'll put a few sources here, as food for thought. At the end of this post is a lengthy thematic bibliography that you may find useful for digging in deeper.
Dehaene, Stanislas; Changeux, Jean-Pierre; Naccache, Lionel; Sackur, Jérôme; Sergent, Claire
2006 “Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy,” in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (Cell Press/Elsevier), vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 204-211 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661306000799, accessed: 18 December 2014).
Boroditsky, Lera; Prinz, Jesse
2008 “What thoughts are made of,” in Embodied grounding: social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches, Gün R. Semin and Eliot R. Smith, editors, New York, Cambridge University Press, pp. 98-115 (http://lera.ucsd.edu/papers/what-thoughts-are-made-of.pdf, accessed: 11 November 2017).
Kuzmičová, Anežka
2014 “Literary narrative and mental imagery: a view from embodied cognition,” in Style (Northern Illinois University), vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 275-293 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281938394, accessed: 10 April 2017).
Koch, Sabine C.
2012 “Testing Fuchs’ taxonomy of body memory, a content analysis of interview data,” in Body memory, metaphor and movement, Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa, and Cornelia Müller, editors, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 171-186 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259975701, accessed: 11 July 2017).
Here's a lecture by Susan Blackmore called, "The grand illusion of consciousness," on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdMA8RVu1sk
And finally, here's the link to the bibliography I mentioned: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317351468
P.S. The beginning of the installation looks good.
Hi David
thanks so much for your help and documentation.
The artwork is progressing and here is the explanation of the idea spheres.
It all came together while I was reflecting on how ideas on concepts and theories take shape. .....Ideas in a sphere!
I feel that I am on the pathway of the surfacing of ideas as an interleaving process.
I really appreciate your promptness is answering my questions.
The Eureka Tree – Different Kinds of Ideas.
Each bauble (18, 4 big 4 medium, 8 small) contains the symbol or metaphor of different kinds of ideas. Here they are: scrunched up paper= load of messy ideas, empty one= no idea, ?= looking for ideas, flowers=fancy ideas, glitter= sparkly ideas, jingly bell=it rings a bell idea, small rings=lots of minor ideas, red and green=contrasting ideas, buttons=heavy and buttoned down ideas, spirals=ideas that go round and round, threads= jumbled ideas, confetti=celebrating ideas, zig-zags= ideas that come and go, black circle=block, star=organized ideas, large intertwined circles= interleaving ideas, medium rings=playing with ideas.
Materials used: paper strips, glitter, buttons and a bell.
Cherry Thursday.
Holly
Dear Holly:
You spoke too soon about my promptness, as I just now saw your post of 10 days ago!
I think the baubles work, as I got similar impressions before reading your verbal explanation.
It might be cool to have an idea break through the limits of a sphere, or break into a sphere from outside. That would give some significance to the container, as a permeable barrier, I think.
Just an idea.
Best,
David
Hi David
mmmm a sort of go inside the sphere to see whats going on. A snippet of the brain activity while ideas buzz. Would be great to have an enormous sphere as display/gallery.
At the moment working on bubbles...and the potential title is Wandering Minds.
Thanks
Holly
If funding is insufficient for building a giant sphere, this could be suggested with an illusion made with light from multiple projection points.
I recommended your explanation provided in the following link
https://hbfwarren.com/tag/morphology-of-ideas/
Best Regards Holly B. F. Warren
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