Quieting The Default Mode Network, 9 Queer Artist from Kyiv to Montreal

from Kyiv to Montreal

and expand our perspectives

this art draws parallels to our tether to the earth

Standing solitary against the skyline

and giving art classes to others

Quieting The Default Mode Network, 9 Queer Artist from Kyiv to MontrealThe default mode network can be thought of as the conversations we have with ourselves our overthinking, our self doubt, and our self importance. It is a network of interacting brain regions that is active when a person is not focused on the outside world. To be completely present is to quiet those thoughts, to allow consciousness to fully experience what is being sensed from the outside world. Painting with my hands and dirt is an attempt to immerse