Thought Must Be Divided

Medium: Charcoal, colored pencil and watercolor on paper

Size: 768.35x1104.9mm or 30.25x43.5in

Date: 2018

In Do What You Will Essays, Aldous Huxley proclaimed, "Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself." He suggested that at the instance we open our eyes, humans immediately draw conclusions about the environment, ourselves and others. We "see" dividers between things to interpret our world. We divide the world into parts consistent with our preconceived notions before we come to understand our intentions. Humans have a desire to maintain consistent ideas about the world, despite having founded those ideas on erroneous assumptions.