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Ross Green

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s an artist and a scientist, Ross and Daniel are both interested in how perception works, and how far our perception makes contact with reality.  In their conversations throughout his process, they were particularly keen to explore unusual beliefs and experiences – both those that might characterise states of mental illness, and those that the all of us may encounter whether well or ill. 

The essential kernel of modern, scientific thinking about the brain is that our perceptions are incomplete. We make contact with the world around us through the veil of our sensory organs – like our eyes and our ears, our skins or our tongues.


But the information the world transmits to us through these senses is corrupted, ambiguous and indeterminate. Thus, to perceive, our brains have to inject their own prior beliefs and assumptions into the mix – a process that is sometimes called unconscious inference. An unconscious guess or leap that goes beyond the evidence itself. 

Reflecting on Ross’s work, Daniel said ‘I think that Ross’ piece has done an incredible job of rendering the ambiguity and incompleteness that is inherent to human perception‘.

Biography

Ross Green was born in Scotland but has resided in Ireland for the last thirteen years. Currently based in Cork, he works primarily in pen and ink to produce large-scale pieces that bring subtle undercurrents of the human experience to the fore. Ross organised ‘Spirit Box’, a spoken word, story-telling and poetry monthly event that culminated in an event at Cúirt Literary Festival in Galway in 2018. He has also taught poetry as part of the Uni-4-U programme for students entering secondary school.

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