BARB BONDY
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Some questions need visualizations to help answer them: Aside from 
mathematical calculations Albert Einstein used visualization or what is 
known as his characteristic “thought experiments” to answer probing 
questions about the nature of the universe and the universe of nature. 
The diagrams of physicist Richard Feynman are known world-wide; 
what appear to be simple ‘cartoon-like drawings’ delineate mathematical 
calculations that are extremely complicated. Feynman’s diagrams have 
been described as giving physicists a “quick, intuitive way to organize 
and understand difficult calculations” in a way that is “disarmingly 
straightforward and subtly complex”.

Drawing is the unmediated expression of intuitive insight; it provides 
a means with which one can freely and clearly articulate or gain 
understanding of complexity through a language of mark-making, 
gesture and tonal shifts.

My current work utilizes primarily drawing to explore the correlation 
of quantum mechanics, cognitive science, neuroscience and mind/brain 
phenomena. I am interested in how the mechanisms of the mind/brain 
work to form an individual’s experience of the world. I propose my 
drawings as intuitive visualizations that arrive out of ruminations 
on cross-pollinations of art and science, thought experiments of a 
sort that probe for a deeper understanding of the totality of the 
human experience.