As a child, I loved science, but Western science’s tendency to dismiss anything that threatened standing theories bothered me. Western science shoved myth under the heading of social anthropology, conveniently rendering it harmless. I did not want to challenge science, but I wanted to expand mythology: to create my own.

Since the inception of the scientific method, politics, political religion, blind-sighting skepticism, and the violent desire for the accuracy of a (false) hypothesis have all perverted this system’s elegance and effectiveness. Today, both academe and industry struggle with their own demons to preserve the scientific method, in order to discover “Truth”.

I am particularly interested in the language and symbolic forms of science and where these intersect with mythic, religious and popular iconographies. I believe science has merged with popular culture to become a covertly “universal” religion. I am particularly interested in ways we import the very public and secular languages and symbols of media into the very private languages of family, friendships and spirituality.

I now look for “Truths”, myths, superstitions and expectations of the past to see where reality may lie -- but also to point out and accentuate its occasional absurdity. In my art, I postulate, explore and divulge these ideas, thereby forming, simultaneously, my own applied mythologies and my own private science.

Heather D. Freeman

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