What is Synesthesia?
Synesthesia is a non-pathological variation of human perception.
Synesthetic people automatically and involuntarily experience the activation of an additional sensory or cognitive pathway in response to specific stimuli.
For example, you can hear a musical note when you see a color, this is my case, I have the so-called chromatic synesthesia.
These perceptions are idiosyncratic, that is, each person perceives colors/smells/sounds and physical sensations, etc. concrete and different.
Although synesthesia is said to be a mixture of senses, this is inaccurate:
In synesthesia there is sensory specificity, that is, sounds are heard as sounds, the color in which these letters are written is correctly perceived (white), synesthesia is an additional sensation (a color is correctly perceived as it is, and also a sound).
This is my world, COLORS and MUSIC.
I invite you to be SYNESTHETIC for a moment, to enjoy these Works of Art as I do
WITH THE SIGHT AND WITH THE EAR...
I hope you enjoy it.
In May 2021 I was invited to give a presentation on Synesthesia at the Aurica School of Art in Mexico, and I also had the honor of being the godmother of the graduate course in Art History that year.
Here is the link to the presentation.