Beacon Gallery’s “Synaesthesia: Abstract Art & Creative Writing” is an exhibit featuring works by writers, poets and artists, some who have synaesthesia and some who do not. For those unfamiliar with the term, synaesthesia, it is the perceptual phenomenon where the stimulation of one sense automatically and involuntarily stimulates another. A person who has synaesthesia, or a synesthete, can see sounds or taste colors. Sometimes individual letters and numbers are associated with specific patterns or colors; a smell can prompt a specific sound to the synesthete’s ear; shapes can have their own tastes, or sounds can have their own textures. The focus of this exhibit is on abstract works of art accompanied by short poems or stories reacting to these pieces of art. Color and texture were unifying themes in the art pieces, while emotion was the biggest unifier between the pieces of … [Read more...] about Synaesthesia at Beacon Gallery