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There comes a point in organizing a symposium where the spreadsheets, late-night emails, emergency print jobs, missing easels, poster tubes, volunteer T-shirts, and endless logistical puzzles finally stop feeling like separate tasks and start becoming something cohesive. It’s very early morning in Amsterdam, just hours before Synesthesia: Interdisciplinary Research in a Multisensory World begins, and…

There are moments in one’s creative life when something quietly clicks into place. For me, that moment arrived a few weeks ago when I joined Art Sci Now as a collaborator. I’ve long worked at the intersection of disciplines: writing, visual art, embodied practice, and research into synesthesia and perception. But finding a community that…

Today is Beltane and May Day and the night of the full Flower Moon. If there was ever a time to wear a flower crown, it’s now. Fresh or dried, made of paper or textiles, this night was made for floral headwear. Beannachtaí na Bealtaine duit…the blessings of Beltane to you! I’ve spent the last…

It’s Earth Day and my dining table/art studio is covered with damaged and discarded books. Some of them have broken spines, others have been a canvas for crayons and stickers. Many of them have been cleared out of school libraries because they no longer meet curriculum goals, their bar codes slashed with red pen. One…

Today is April the 14th. Sometimes referred to as “Ruination Day”, this date always makes me think of the gorgeous, melancholic Gillian Welch song linking three early spring tragedies. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865. The Titanic struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, before sinking in the wee hours of the next…

Chromesthesia is a form of synesthesia in which sound gives rise to involuntary experiences of color, shape, and movement. Sometimes referred to as “colored hearing,” a person with sound to color, shape, pattern, or texture synesthesia might perceive a friend’s voice as a looping blue ribbon. A mourning dove’s coo may flicker emerald at the…

I woke this morning to find a message from the editors at Ad Anima, the literary journal published by the medical school at UC Irvine. They shared a link to my personal essay “Mirror,” which appears in volume 2, issue 1. Ad Anima is hosted by eScholarship, the open source academic platform created by the…