Heavy Merge, 2025: A site-specific multimedia installation at the Drexel University Pearlstein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. 3 video projections, multi-speaker audio, sculpture and lighting in the 42' x 36' x 17' gallery.
Carolyn Healy: sculpture and lighting
John JH Phillips: audio and video.

In Heavy Merge, Carolyn Healy and John Phillips present a personal reflection on the brain and its complex matrix of neurons and synapses that give rise to consciousness. For Healy and Phillips, our brains are a wonderland of accumulations, iterations, and free wheeling interconnections that shape our cognitive activity and experience of selfhood. In the installation, Healy’s dangling forms contrast with a stream of recycled object leaning against the wall. The 3D sculptures are intermingled with shadows and mirrored reflections, suggestive of the way our minds collapse one thought into another. Audio and video projections of feedback loops by Phillips further reference the entangled circuits of perception, feeling, information, and noise that make us who we are.