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StoreFrontLab
September 26 - November 5, 2015Info
337 Shotwell St San Francisco, CA 94110 Google Map »Reception
September 26, 2015 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Indigo Mind, Celebrating the Work of Oliver Sacks (illustration by Carissa Potter)
Indigo Mind is an ambitious group exhibition celebrating the work of neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks. Opening September 26, 2015 at StoreFrontLab, the project features artists who explore a range of brain and body phenomena examined in Sacks’ research. These works present the influence Sacks has had on our understanding of the human condition in its limitless variation and form. The title, Indigo Mind, references Sacks’ essay, “Altered States,” in which he describes the mental state of indigo, rare moments of perceiving the truest form of the color. Sacks witnessed indigo only twice in his life, once in 1964 at his home in Los Angeles, and the other, a year later during a Monteverdi concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He describes indigo as “luminous” and “numinous,” filling him with a sense of “rapture.” Indigo Mind relates this elevated state of mind to that of the artist’s process—clarity, inspiration, and pure creative bliss. Indigo Mind regards the idiosyncrasies of the body and mind as a pathway to creativity. The Unknown and the Other, to which Sacks has dedicated his life’s work, are deeply valued for their neuro- and physiological diversity; the unique qualities of being human that enables us to discover new ground.