JARED GIBSON

Neo-Rorschach employs the psychological practice of the Rorschach Ink Blots Test in exploring mental wellbeing through visualisation of the mind. X-ray and brain like imagery provide the viewer with representations of the mind in still and moving image scans. Still scans highlight the imagery defined by the mind while the moving scans come alive, opening the viewer to the movement of the mind, in bright direct terms. The moving frenzy in the scans themselves leaves room for the viewer to perceive more specific or wider changing mindsets. These changing mindsets can be read in general terms of how the mind is seen or how an individual viewer of the work may feel at the time. This references back to the Rorschach Theory of Inkblots that was used to read the mental wellbeing of patients and determine whether they were sane or not. While this practice in itself has been debunked it is interesting to explore the thinking and understanding of the past.