Art for the Brain

“This image perfectly represents what a layered thought looks like to me. When I see a word, or a symbol, or an icon, or a number, I see an additional version or layer of meaning behind it, and I mean that quite literally. I see a second or third version of the visible, though I "know" what I am looking at isn't "see-able" to other people. (At least, I know that as an adult.) In this image, the dark shape in front represents the visible while the white shape behind is equivalent to the version I view automatically on the otherside of consciousness. Even as I look at the additional layer, I understand that it is generated from the object in front of it. That's the reason the edges are indistinct and the shape is amorphous, much like the nature of meaning itself.”
- Marcia Smilack; a photographer and video artist with synesthesia

Here’s a profile of the artist from Seed magazine.