Airom Bleicher: Short Statement

My art explores the interaction between emotion and cognition. The actuality of all meaningful experience is a vicarious build up of thoughts sparking emotions and those emotions sparking further thoughts, in a circling motion. Somewhere in the interaction in-between is the truth.

I apply my past work and study in experimental cognitive psychology to the canvass and to conceptual installation, visually representing schematized concepts as they would be in the human mind in the process of brought from memory and applied to sensual building blocks. I respond to these schemata emotively borrowing from techniques of early, abstract and post-expressionists. I continue this process by taking these emotional reactions and responding to them conceptually, incorporating them into large installations exploring particular types of psychological phenomena or conducting psychological experiments using the pieces as stimuli. The end result is a slow-motion cycle of cognitive-emotional interactions that either latch onto the viewer from emotive angle before causing contemplation or create contemplation of ideas that stir emotion, hopefully stirring a circling between the two.