Déjà vu

Drawing

By Saint John Vortimer Smith

déjà vu (“French for "already seen")

95 x 65cm

Ink on cartridge paper

Comments from the artist

“Deja vu” represents the interplay between memories of the places we have been and people we have met within the brain. The illustrations signify the dense collection of memories we have stored over our lifetimes. Within this dreamscape, the rules of physics do not apply and our childhood toys soar in the sky with the plane we took for our summer trip! The overall work takes the form of a brain MRI scan, juxtaposing the physical biology of the brain with the imagination we cannot see with our plain eye.

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Saint John Vortimer Smith is an Ink & Canvas editor for Burnings. Find out more here.