The Remedy Project commissioned artwork.

Syncopation meets Synaesthesia, I see Music

by Glenn Barry, Gamilaraay (2021)

Syncopation meets Synaesthesia, I see Music; shows ways in which we absorb the world around us and are stimulated through sensory perceptions. As a relationship between at least two different time intervals, this art is about overlapping of ideals. Like life, the way to interpret Syncopation Meets Synaesthesia. I see Music needs a Goanna’s close up and grounded interpretation and also an Eagle’s aerial perspective to get the pictures’ whole meanings. Within the layers, there are the industrial western points of view represented with the grids of black and white (ala Roman roads) maps of coming from and going to and the 5 campsites are our First Nation’s worlds showing the different colours and layers of who we are-our identity shown in a natural way. Dendroglyphs or the diamond shapes are our initiation sites of ceremonies/Yulagi. They are also grids of black and white, referencing where we come together. They are standing still, strong and ready to show our methods of being, knowing, doing and valuing-our coming home. Synaesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.