Cognitive Libertines

Cognitive Libertines plays with themes of knowing and understanding. As long as there is a world to be known, there are those who will never know when there is already too much to be known, and their unbridled perception, their wanton understanding, will debauch their consciousness, and brand them as profligates wandering in the splendor of their own hallucinations - or to be more succinct, 'Cognitive Libertines.' Part of the 'Illuminations' series, this painting was displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2010-13. The painting is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.

Other paintings in the Illuminations series include:

• The Lord of Misrule
• The Pool
• The Human Tree
• Traffic Jam
• No Parking Zone
• Chemical Imbalance
• Gallows Humor
• Burlesque