Cecelia Chapman


Semiotic-Pareidoliapophenia

Lanaquarelle paper, 10 x 14 in., 26 x 36 cm.
watercolor, gouache, personal rubber stamps, graphite, ink.
2019

Cecelia Chapman is an investigative artist and graphic designer whose work examines how we live and think. Her practice is based in the image, and the ways it influences consciousness and the long range effects. She is a California artist currently living in Massachusetts.

Pareidolia refers to the human tendency to perceive random things occurring in nature as significant, usually some meaning of human origin. Apophenia is the tendency to find relationships between things or events that have no connection to each other. Semiotic-Pareidoliapophenia explores metaphor and magic in abstract-asemic writing. The experience of reading meaningful signs and symbols in rock lines, paint splatters, leaf mold, skid marks, scars, cracks. Finding connection and pattern in random data.
 
 
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