Brainstorm Platform 1: Vision and Creativity

A new piece of the ongoing sculpture, 'Brainstorm', has appeared on the wall of the New Gainsborough Library. In fact there is both a drawing on the wall and a three dimensional metal sculpture coming out from it.

The sculpture is like a scene of what is going on inside the brain, with the little people in white coats representing the mad scientists, mad artists or mad professors of our imagination.

Like the pie in 'Trivial Pursuits", each platform, as it appears, will mix segments of entertainment, history, arts & literature, science & nature... Sometimes surreal, sometimes comic, the little people and their machines will be busy with everything from making art to measuring gravity.

The platform shows vision and visual art sitting side by side. The scientist is busy turning her eye-lens machine while the artist holds up his palette ready to paint the picture on the wall. An outline of his picture is drawn on the wall behind as if projected from the big metal eye.

The picture on the wall is a drawing of Thomas Gainsborough's famous painting, "Mr & Mrs Andrews", painted during his time in Suffolk. This picture seems to show a romantic scene of a young newly wed couple, but there is more to this than meets the eye. It is a symbol, a statement of their social mobility. It shows the couple in front of their large estate, enlarged because of their advantageous marriage, observation worthy of Jane Austen.