Home is where the neurons connect
Here is where you imagine yourself being a little less or a little more of the person you think you are when you use the word ‘normal’. The number of connections and reconnections your brain will perform over your lifetime is unclassifiable and unbelievable. Yet those connections all belong to you. Thus, what exactly is ‘you’? The contributors to this section have seen and experienced the breakdown of the body, or of the mind. They know a tragic secret, which is that the beauty of the brain and the nervous system is truly revealed to us when they falter or when they become ill. That’s when we lose sight of home, and when we begin longing for it. But the world we share is not properly designed for people to find their way back home; not that kind of home, at least. Here the artworks all point in one way or another to the frequent invisibility of mental afflictions in society. They also tell of our common and profound need for meaning to subsist over time, whether it be through the consideration we have for the lives of others, or through our efforts at constantly fixing and rerouting and attempting to heal the impossible story of our own life.
