Neurosigils

It is an understood fact that imagery can change perceptions and over time change behaviours. Mental awarenesses and feelings can be changed using imagery, and mental diseases affected, cured or created using images. The censorship of imagery by governments is due to the harm that images can cause to the mind.

Freud understood that images underpin the mind. However Freudian surrealism soon became irrelevant. The dream of a universal language of the mind was dead and replaced with a language for an individual mind. Surrealism, the imagery of dreams and the mind, became a representation of the artist and nothing more.

Surreal images work both ways, however. Does a smile may you happy, or does being happy make you smile? The answer is both are true, there is no paradox, and just as images can represent the mind, moods, ideas, representations and by extension events, people, actions, interactions and reactions, then images can be used to create these things. Magicians have believed in the power of images to change the universe for centuries; they call those images sigils. Images that change the brain are called neurosigils.

Painting is a symbiotic relationship. An artist creates a picture and a picture creates the artist. When I work on a sad picture I am sad. When I work on a happy picture I am happy. I feel happy and that makes the picture happy. If the picture is happy it makes me feel happy. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and like in physics this applies in art too.

Up until this time, most of my art has been about isolation, pain, sadness, and my life life has been isolated, painful and sad. My images reflected my life but they also created it. Imagery can create changes in ones personality when imagined, and by extension changes in ones beliefs, viewpoints, observations and environment.

A neurosigil is an image designed to manipulate the mind of the observer, to convey an idea on a psychological level, conscious and unconscious, with clarity and intellect. A neurosigil is designed to reprogram the brain; to change thoughts and feelings; to create new perceptions and convey mental states more completely than words or sounds.

To create a neurosigil program one must know how to manipulate the mind. One must represent an event in time and in space, in emotion and in intent. Once painted and viewed intensely; felt, and experienced fully it will change the mind and perceptions of the viewer and over time those changes will become permanent.

Those who visualise a positive future, enjoy that future and those that visualise a negative future enjoy that future. Successful people know that luck doesn't exist. They create luck, and they create luck by using visual imagery. The correct painting can do more than make you smile, or cry, or gaze in awe, or reflect. It can change your life, your personality, and the world.

Mark Sheeky, 7 January 2009