“I’m interested in the subtractive and additive masking powers of overlapping images.

 

    What if I overlapped the movements of a single subject and compressed them onto one sheet of paper. . . would the mind be able to take it all in?

 

    Is it possible to paint a portrait of a person’s energy, and without resorting at all to likeness, be able to show the contents of the subconscious, background, and even cultural history?                    

 

    I’m interested in the ability of the subconscious to make itself understood despite the logical and linguistic layer we’ve imposed on top of it. This can be accomplished easily with experimental methods. For instance a subject can be asked to tell a story backwards. The stress to the linguistic half of the brain of recounting a tale backwards disables the conscious mind and renders it relatively ineffective. What then is the meaning of the resulting nonsense? The subconscious appropriates the moment and floods forward with metaphors which can later be analyzed..”

                        

                                Mark Potter

                                February 2007