If you’d told me at the start of my career as an artist that I would spend several years collaborating with experimental psychologists, I probably would’ve laughed in your face. When you finish art college the last thing on your mind is to go and hang out with scientists. You try instead to build a network of artists around you in a studio group, who can be there when times are tough and help you develop your ideas for the next project. I did this for a while — in fact for the first 10 years of my career. However it always felt like there was something missing. Although studio culture can be nurturing and supportive, I also found it to be cloyingly self-referential and insular. Great art can of course be made in such settings. However I felt I needed something more.
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