A full room installation of thirty-five brain scans depicting different layers of my brain that are made into (4"x4") light boxes.  Each piece of film has words etched into it - thoughts taken from personal journals of the time. Each light box, with exposed individual electric cords, sits on custom gurneys made narrow and tall. The four walls of the room are draped with a continuous sage colored hospital curtain. (To view all the brain scan light boxes visit Negative to Positive tag.)

My brain scans were taken in early December 1998. Here is a body of works on paper, The Ragdale Series, that I completed in June of 2009 that describes part of the story.

In July 2006 the installation was exhibited at The International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago. Alan Artner, art critic for the Chicago Tribune, wrote the following:

"Found" is a site specific installation that I created in the year 2008 at the Evanston Art Center. The group show was titled "Heating up" and each invited artist was asked to contribute a new work based on the city of Chicago and global warming. The Evanston Art Center is north of Chicago and resides on the shores of Lake Michigan. "Found" is in a room that shows signs of a past flood. The room is starkly arranged and the walls are bare, but for two bright patches where art must have hung. Arranged stoically, is worn furniture consisting of a desk, a church pew, chairs, a small table, and one oil lamp converted to electricity. On the desk is a pile of books, journals whose entries are barely legible due to smears. There are also sketches that have been washed away.

The time is the future, a time not yet lived. In the journals we learn of a changing world where the lights can go out and things can slip away. We read of a quiet world, filled with new smells and noises that becomes a place to remain calm.

I will be sharing journal entries, as part of a larger story, My Gamma Waves.
Both Posterous and My Gamma Waves are streamed together on Facebook: