Agency

We have agency. In other words, we have a sense of our own existence and can act in line with our intentions and needs. It seems obvious that many other animals such as cats and dogs also have agency. Many contemporary philosophers and scientists are working on the question of how far down the evolutionary chain agency occurs. Some, like Philip Ball and Arthur Reber, have suggested that even single-celled organisms may have a simple sense of agency. In What Matter Feels I suggest that agency may extend even further, and that all matter that interacts with energy has some primordial sense of its own existence, and therefore some form of mind.

The image in this poster is created using a combination of acrylic paints and highly volatile inks to create the flower-like forms. Like many of the works in this series, the forms are arranged in groups of three. This triadic structure occurs frequently in nature as it is one of the simplest and most stable arrangements of matter.

Original artwork: 2023, Ink, pastel, and paint on paper, 60 x 60 cm.

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