#synesthete

“If we can’t be lovers we’ll never be friends…”

Mixed media, 22.5x30in, 28 hrs

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One day I’ll sit down and give an extensive talk on my experience with synesthesia, but for now I’ll just say that for me, music has always been tied to my art. Inextricably. When I put on music as I paint it’s not just background noise, it’s actively informing the piece. This is an example of me taking that to the logical extreme, this entire piece was made and crafted by the music I heard as I painted it. Using Beatles (and solo career) songs from across their lifespan, the finished piece becomes a visual symphony of shared history between Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Everything shared, and everything left unsaid.

[PT: Kinetic Synesthesia. End PT]

A flag for those who have any type of Synesthesia that is under kinetic-specific symptoms, such as Mirror Kinetics, Auditory Kinetics, Color Kinetics, etc.

Self-indulgent <3

I have synesthesia, and I drew Teenagers by my chemical romance.

All the orange is Gerard Way's voice. The red, yellow, and pink lines with glow on the sides are the guitars. The red in the bottom middle, is the drums. No idea what the blue is or why it's there, but it's definitely important. And the two green circles are for Frank Iero don't also me why I don't know, he just gets green circles for some reason. And the yellow circles with lines at the top, is the part that sounds like those noise makers you'd find at party city or wherever.

Teenagers was the first MCR song I ever listened to, and it was also (and still is) the most intense synesthesia experience I've ever had, like could not think over top of the way the song looked, at the time I also noticed the orange and blue, which is kinda normal, a lot of time I don't see specific parts of the song unless I'm actively paying attention to the way the song looks.

Back when I was on discord, I made some friends mandala paintings based on what colors I see with the sound of their names/usernames. I only ever did three of these, but I loved making them.

So I decided I'm opening commissions for $10-20 a piece. If you'd like your own personalized synesthesia mandala painting, drop an ask in my inbox and we can chat! I'm not sure if my insurance is gonna pay for my medical equipment yet plus I need to be able to afford transportation rn so anything y'all commission really helps me out.

Mandala Examples:

GOLDIE

MORTALIS

SERRA

I can almost always tell when a photo is AI. Why?

Because I have synesthesia.

What does synesthesia do?

For me, it usually means perceiving or associating letters and numbers and musical notes with colors and patterns. It's a sort of sensory crossover. Others might be able to taste words, for example. Usually just a neat little neurological quirk.

But when AI images came out, something new developed! Another sense started crossing over.

So now, when I see an AI image or video and my brain, thin-slicing and clocking the AI before I notice,

I CAN SMELL BURNT FUCKING PLASTIC.