Attention Studies:
The Neuroaesthetics of Slow Looking and Making

These drawings come from a daily sketchbook practice, developed through a funded Study Grant, that investigates how sustained making can restore attention. The research builds on work in neuroaesthetics, including Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross's Your Brain on Art, and has grown through correspondence with Magsamen of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins. The drawings are not studies for the paintings. They are a record of what slow looking does to a mind moving through the world.

Attention Studies Series, ink on paper, 3.5” x 5.5”, 2026