BARB BONDY

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, VISUAL ARTIST, DEPARTMENT OF ART & ART HISTORY, CLA

DEEPSEEING:

Bondy’s creative research connects science, art, and the humanities primarily through drawing and photography to explore questions about metacognition (thinking about thinking). The Deepseeing Series aims to activate cognitive activity in an observer by presenting images that ambiguously reference familiar visual stimuli. The purpose is to stimulate in the observer lingering curiosity to enable sustained visual processing; it is the aim that prolonged engagement with the drawing will embed the image into memory. In this sense, the viewer becomes cognitively entangled with the image and perhaps by extension, with the artist as well. (Reference: Biederman & Vessel, 2006)

Studio Art
Graphite drawing on Stonehenge paper
Two-dimensional
36'' X 24'', framed
2016

Last Updated: August 30, 2018