The Horror in Clay
Rosalind McLachlan and Toby Phips Lloyd
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René Descartes - The Pineal Gland. Illustration by Gerard van Gutschoven (1644)
Rosalind and Toby are both interested in consciousness, interpretation of the self and the concept of the soul. Both see their work as a research practice, sourcing ideas from science and folklore to make artworks. For Connecting Principle, the two artists are collaborating for the first time and are focusing on the function of the pineal gland. Descartes, who famously said Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am), believed that the soul was located in the pineal gland at the centre of the human brain.
