A collaboration between artist and scientist exploring aspects of visual thinking and how we see and interact with color.
Artist / Printmaker
A graduate of Harvard College (B.A., 1981), Matt worked as a carpenter and cabinet-maker before beginning experiments with color woodblock printing in 1993.
Since 1995 he has made his living making color woodblock prints using the Japanese hanga method.
Professor of Psychology
After earning his PhD in Psychology at Princeton University, Ming taught at MIT and then at Dartmouth College (2009 - 2017). From 2018 - 2025 Ming was a professor at South China Normal University in Guangzhou, China, and in 2025 he began a professorship at the Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham.
Ming has co-authored with other scientists numerous articles on aspects of visual perception, many of which are difficult for the layman to grasp.
How difficult? One that is more graspable is from 2016: Encodings of implied motion for animate and inanimate object categories in the two visual pathways
Conversations began when Ming and his family arrived from China to rent my house for three weeks in the winter of 2018.
What started as casual conversations evolved into a deep collaboration exploring the intersection of art and science, perception and energy, tradition and innovation.
Our theory describes the experience of visual relationships as intertwined with a perception of relative energy relationships. We believe it is relevant and useful to think of visual perception as a process of assessing energy relationships in our world.
Co-author, resident of Lyme, NH
Co-author, resident of Lyme, NH
Video series collaborator, Matt's younger son
Participant in Art within Art event
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