widen the area of consciousness (yes, that again)

The exhibition at Susan Bridges' Edgewood gallery (which I frequently wish had been called Edgewood Gallery, located as it is in the onetime carriage house of a house that seems to have expanded in indeterminate ways since its birth as an elegant home in the late nineteenth century)...as I was saying, the exhibition I am curating will attempt to illustrate the structure of our mental limitations that keep us not just from comprehending complex systems but acknowledging that they exist: in other words, that the world is interlinked in ways we never quite grasp and our understanding of it is structured by motives that we only partly understand, and even though this fact has been the subject of literature for almost as long as there has been literature (or even storytelling), we still don't quite understand what it is we don't understand.

This has been the topic of the joculum blog from its inception, of course.

I am working on the question of how to present the visual metaphors without reams of commentary. The visuals have to communicate in and of themselves, on a preverbal level that works for a variety of audiences who are likely to come to an art gallery in a Southern city of the early part of the twenty-first century.