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Barbara Ryan is an artist, writer and perfumier with polymodal synaesthesia. “I believe synaesthesia is something that has always influenced my work or at least my particular sense of aesthetics. Predominantly subconsciously, yet at certain times I have employed it quite deliberately. The interesting aspect for me is the way it binds everything together – initially what seems somewhat random can later be traced to a ‘synaesthesic source’ which, far from being arbitrary, has shown to display a ‘system’ or ‘code’. To completely crack the code would, however, sanitise and order a fluid and instinctive noetisiscm – and thus destroy both the process and outcome. I am particularly interested in the area of ‘synaesthesic translation’ – translating material, whether visual, gestural, auditory or olfactory, from one discipline to another. A form of alchemy and transmutation, it is only the study of synaesthesia which is relatively new and I suspect the phenomenon of ‘synaesthesia’ will, at some point, be revealed in scientific terms at least, to be a sub-system to an all encompassing form of brain function.” Amongst other projects, Barbara Ryan is currently researching synaesthesically visible linguistic coding systems of both written and spoken languages.
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