Cnidarian

Cnidarians have no brain. No central nervous system, no front, no place where the animal is more itself than anywhere else. They sense and respond across the whole body at once, and they have been doing it for something like six hundred million years.

Each work here is a radially symmetric cut-paper form, roughly twenty inches square with two inches of real relief, built in paper, ink and acrylic over a painted ground: tentacular projections, an oral disc, radial canals.

The titles name states that belong to a creature with a centre. Warm Perception. Active Sensing. Blooming Anger. Vanilla Peace. I am attaching feelings to an organism that cannot have them, and the forms keep accepting it.