This image is an architectural rendering of my brain as a house. Each space within the Brain House corresponds to an area or function of the human brain: The underwater Brain Stem Basement houses primitive equipment that regulates temperature and lighting in the house, hides the motor for the dumbwaiter delivery system, and swallows up repressed or blacked out memories in its swampy floor. The Swollen Ballroom of Perception provides a dangerous stage for the performance of fantasies, the re-enactment of memories, the manifestation of dreams. The Nervous Aquarium twists throughout the structure, a glass tube full of phosphorescent jellyfish whose contracting bells and splayed tentacles pulse with electrical signal like neurons. Information is stored in every nook and cranny of the Brain House: buckets of color, tiny music boxes, precarious stacks of nose-shaped glass jars, books bursting with swatches of textured fabric, and burlap sacks full of more ethereal stored sensations - those that rise the hair on the back of the neck, elicit a sudden gasp, an embarrassing laugh, or the tear that gives me away...