Synaesthesia – “The production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.”
Artist Melissa McCracken grew up with synaesthesia, a neurological condition that affects roughly 1 in 100 people in Australia which causes the brain to confuse certain sensory stimuli and process them differently.
The condition affects people in various ways. Some people see what they smell, or hear shapes. For McCracken, her favourite songs are interpreted as colours, a gift that she compliments with her exceptional talents as an abstract painter.
What does it feel like to ‘see’ music? Dive into the synesthetic world of artist Melissa McCracken, an artist who paints what she hears.
Below is a selection of her beautiful works that depict tunes from artists like Bowie, Prince and Radiohead as cracks, sparks and and explosions of colour and shape.
[Read this excellent interview with McCracken via Broadly]
