Brains

I took the class, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and learned, through direct experience, that we use different parts of our brains in creative endeavors.  On the left is my "pre-training" self-portrait and to the right are my "right-brain trained" self-portraits.  Time stops when I'm using my right brain, I enter Ulmer's description of choral space and invent something.  I made the video posted below as a visual narrative on how we process things differently, not only left brain and right brain but with no brain (zombies) and full-brain--which is where we are headed in electracy.  The left-side of the brain is associated with alphabetic reading and writing and Leonard Shlain  posited in "The Alphabet vs The Goddess" that it was alphabetic writing that helped bring about male hegemony and the death of the goddess in most civilizations. With the revival of right-brain competencies, I see the return of the heroine, but not merely the woman making a masculine hero's journey.  She has her own journey, not just the quest story as a man with a pair of boobs and a thong.  Maureen Murdock re-delineates the heroine's journey in her book of the same name ("The Heroine's Journey").  It was difficult to find narratives about these strong heroines but I found two movies that fit the narrative for the feminine side.  One was Carl Sagan's "Contact" and the other was "Gorilla in the Mists" after the true story of Dian Fossey. Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall are on my shortlist for the 5th position on my personal Mt. Rushmore. 

Brains, Brains, Brains from Teresa Troutman on Vimeo.