Much of my work exploits certain shortcuts and assumptions that our brains use to construct our realities of the world.

When this knowledge is combined and woven together, some remarkable results are possible.

Until you witness me in performance, you will have to settle for some basic examples of these perceptual shortcuts at work - see below.

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Lingustic Processing

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid!
It deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny
iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can
be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lterter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

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Colour Perception

If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see.

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Visual Patterns

What can you see in the above picture?
After a second or two you will mostly likely see the outline of a Dalmation.
In reality the raw data of the black and white image is very chaotic. It is remarkable that this high level visual processing is automatic.

 
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