Essentials of Psychological Testing
Adhesive wrap on articulated bus
Dimensions variable
2019
Essentials of Psychological Testing was a temporary public artwork produced through a year-long partnership between Vancouver's Contemporary Art Gallery and TransLink, the Metro Vancouver transportation authority. As part of this initative, I designed a digital collage that wrapped six public buses travelling on major routes in Vancouver for a year, inviting commuters to explore connections between images, meaning and movement as they traversed the city.
Adapted from an earlier series titled The Elements of Discontent (2015), the digital collage I produced is made up of elements taken from a psychology textbook borrowed from the Vancouver Public Library, from which all the drawings, charts, diagrams and graphs were scanned and all textual information erased. The elimination of all contextual information on the imagery was a means to think through how the field of psychology is visually represented through methods of quantification and abstraction. Devoid of decipherable messages, the collaged imagery resembled cryptic puzzles, pointing to the impossibility of encapsulating subjective experience.
Please click here to read more about this public art initiative.
All images courtesy of TransLink BC.
