The artwork "my emotions feel so unique // I can’t believe I am human // I am the sky" was exhibited in a group residency of Artem in Copenhagen and delves into the invisible patterns our mental landscapes follow. Emotions are a universal human experience and stable over generations. Their instability for an individual over a day, week, year and life time follows rules of probability. As a cognitive scientist I study the principles underlying mental states. From a more subjective experience the universality of these invisible functions gives a sense of relativity and stability in the instability. Chaos and functions unite in our mind. I drew a parallel between this phenomenon and the chaos of the sky, where the dissipation of clouds follows inscrutable patterns of chance. Similarly, there are rules governing our emotions and their dissolution, making space for new ones. Generative art and functions of computer code are utilized to visualize this chaotic yet rule-bound nature. They follow rules and functions that may not necessarily be comprehensible from observation, and this arbitrariness, which nevertheless is based on underlying stable and invisible principles, is thus a well-suited reflection of nature´s (in)stability. I also reflect on the similarities of human mind and rules of artificial neural networks through its ability to visualize human feelings by exhibiting DALL-E creations to a poem by me.

I want to continue working on the question of chance and the role it plays in human life.
Do our mental states only follow rules?
How much control do we have?
Questions about the free will and consciousness have been met with no satisfactory answer in all discilpnies for centuries. I would like to instead approach these questions from the phenemenology of experiencing my own mind.
Similarly viewers of art works should be invited to explore their own capacity and limits of their own mind through interacting and immersing.