Synesthesia: a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway (for example, hearing) leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway (such as vision). Simply put, when one sense is activated, another unrelated sense is activated at the same time. This may, for instance, take the form of hearing music and simultaneously sensing the sound as swirls or patterns of color. (psychologytoday.com)

One common form of synthesia is an association of color with letters, numbers, or words. One might look at the letter A and see blue, or read the word “evil” and see red. For this painting, I purposely made my character in monochromatic coloration to represent the typical world of 5-sense human beings. This is in coordination with colors in her eyes only, signifying a different sense of color and unique subjectivity in the world, and then in the letters and numbers that she sees (notice how any letter or number is only in one color, e.g. A is always red).

In addition to my artwork, I am including a poem I wrote inspired by this neurological condition.