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Central Nervous System Time-Map


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Table of Contents

Page 1- Introduction

Page 2- Artsist statement

Page 3- Image documentation

Page 4- Artistic influence

Why I chose the concept: Central Nervous System

time-map measured through tourettes

I was diagnosed with tourettes when I was 8 years old: My time

map concept is one that felt like the most natural thing for me to

do not only because this concept is the main way I perceive and

measure time but also because this is a means of expressing my

psychological experience of time and how it has developed over

my life.

Facts about the disorder

“Tourette’s syndrome is a neurological disorder characterised by involuntary movements

and verbal outbursts, which affects around one in 100 people. Multiple genes contribute to

the development of the disorder but these can differ between individuals, many of whom

frequently exhibit other neurological disorders including attention deficit disorder and

obsessive compulsive disorder. These factors have made it difficult to identify genes specifically

associated with the development of Tourette’s syndrome.

NRXN1 and CNTN6 are important during brain development and produce molecules that

help brain cells form connections with one another. In addition, the two genes are turned

on in areas that are part of the cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical circuit, a loop of brain cells

connecting the cortex to specific regions involved in processing emotions and movement.

Studies suggest that errors in the circuit may play a role in Tourette syndrome.” Information

from: Tourettessyndrome.org



Artist statement

My physical time map aims to achieve mapping time through

my different motor tics.

The frequency of the tics is always changing depending on

many different factors such as stress.

The way I measured:

I sat down to do 60 minutes of work on an essay and decided I

would record each time I would have a tic movement.

I have different type of tics in my neck that are 5 different

movements I usually do- I recorded how many times I did

each type of move- each movement defined by a colour.

Throughout the course of 60 minutes I had 147 twitch movements.

I had roughly the same amount of each differnt type of movement

5 different type of tics-(5 colours)

147 occurrences

60 minutes

The colours: blue, green, red, purple, orange.

Physical manifestation of map:

I took a small stretched canvas and separated the canvas from

the frame. I took 5 pins in the different colours attaching them

to different parts of the front of the canvas, and 5 threads of

yarn in the same colours. I wrapped the yarn in different directions

around the pins- made it so that the total times the

five threads of would wrap around a different pin would add

up to 60. So each piece of yarn would wrap around a pin 12

times.

I then took the canvas that I ripped off and drew circles in the

different colours for each time each tic. My tic movements

happen in a cycle so I had the exact same amount of each tic.

29 times Of each tic.

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Artistic Inspiration: Mathew Wong

Mathew Wong was a young painter

that I have known and loved for a

couple of years. His dreamy and mystic

lansdcapes in oil are beautiful works

of paintings. They are 2-dimensional,

however they still have an amazing

sense of depth and mystery to them.

There is great detail that goes into his

works often applying pointilism. His

work has been extreemly visually interesting

to me because of the balance

between chaos and tranquility. The

dots can imply repettive disruption

while the loose brushstrokes give me a

sense of peace and tranquility. The balance

is phenomal and the beauty of the

landscapes are inspiring. When finding

out about his death in the Spring of

2019 I started heavily researching him

looking at everything I could find. I

read that he had tourettes and OCD,

when I read that it was like an epiphany

that perhaps explained the narrative

soff some of his work and thats when I

felt a true sense of conncection to it. It

made perfect sense to me, the balance

between the chaos and tranquility

almost ffighting eachother. When I

started thinking about the time map

I started looking through a lot of his

works and ultimately found this.

Written and produced by Edward R-L

The reason I found this peace particularily

inspiring with regards to my

time map is the use use of pointilism

throughout but in differrnt colours inspired

my dots on the canvas. The path

in the middle is a linear progression

of time as the charcater in the centre

in this case myself makes his way

through time. The road is windy and

every changing. The tics are sometimes

better, sometimes worse. This piece in

particular even though not his most

beatiful, really spoke to me as a time

map of identity in its own sense and

inspired my ideas for the

two main factors of my work, the tics and time. The path representing,

time and the dots representing the tics and the person

representing me. I love how this piece may be looked at completely

differently depending on wether you know he had tourettes and

deping on wether you have tourettes yourself.

The constant battle between peace and chaos where only one thing

is innevitably certain; time moves on.

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