Zoe Maxwell
The view from when I went skydiving
Oil on canvas
2023
90 x 70 cm
The view from when I went skydiving
The view from when I went skydiving, I think.
The view from when I think I went skydiving.
I think, the view from when I went skydiving.
The view, I think, from when I went skydiving.
Have I ever been skydiving?
(I’ve never been skydiving)
Our knowledge of the brain
Oil on canvas
2023
90 x 70 cm
Well I looked down and saw Our Knowledge Of The Brain
‘In our knowledge of the brain, we’re like someone looking down on a city from a high-flying airplane. We can tell where the industrial and residential neighbourhoods are, where the airport is, the locations of the main traffic arteries, where the suburbs begin. We also know in great detail what the individual units of the city (citizens, and in this metaphor, neurons) look like. But, for the most part, we can't say where people go when they get hungry, how people make a living, or what any given person's commute looks like. The brain makes sense up close and from far away. It's the in-between- the stuff of thought and memory, the language of the brain- that remains a profound mystery.’
Moonwalking with einstein, Josh Foer, 2011