Thursday, August 7, 2008

Within a nondescript laboratory, the Medical director of a top neuroscience research facility reads aloud from his list of prepared phrases. In the adjoining room, a volunteer listens carefully with a collection of colourful wires trailing from a metallic device attached to the subject’s head. He is studying brain pathways, trying to discover Behavioural characteristics of the patient, to open a doorway to the human mind. Not content with his earlier achievements, he wanted to push his work to the very limits of reality. His macabre research focused on the possibility of sustaining life through artificial means by trying to understand the mechanism’s which control the human mind. His laboratory is home to all manner of bizarre experiments and phenomena, which only a few people in the world could fully understand. His staff quickly became acclimatised to the sight of disembodied heads and desiccated animal corpses. As uncomfortable and ghastly as it was, his findings may prove influential to many modern medical procedures. He is driven by a deep-seated motivation to make amends for his past wrongs. His range of vision and talent is unsurpassed, transcending his field of specialisation. He has never been able to discover, create and manifest in his own life a harmony between theory and practice. He believes that he can never appease the nightmares that haunt him. If only he’d been more careful, less arrogant, checked his methods! How could one small but very dire mistake created such a monster, especially someone so deeply involved in his work, coming close to the point of obsession. Where did it all go wrong?

1 comment:

sean said...

interesting, its time for you to watch the cult film from the seventies 'altered states'. its time to make an architecture for this gentleman too. good