2016: Things Are Not Things, But Collections of Events
The world tilted a bit for me last year when it came to light that my brain had somehow developed a mass of scar tissue in it's right anterior temporal lobe, a crucial region in the the limbic system, which is the physiological seat of what we think of as consciousness ie the processing or sensory information into emotional response, filing the experience into the short term memory, and thence to the long term memory, by which we develop our sense of "self". The scar tissue evident on an MRI brain scan suggested that the frequent episodes of really intense, really spooky experiences of deja-vu I had been experiencing for years were actually "focal, partial-onset seizures", small electrical storms in the brain. I began processing this information through my work, and realized how deeply the un-diagnosed condition had effected my consciousness and artistic output up until then . I was told that if the seizures weren't controlled completely they could deve...
