Stations of Attention is my umbrella title for an ongoing series of works that are inspired by any number of complex systems including but not limited to our brains and the efflorescence of consciousness. These artworks are not illustrations, but rather my way of enacting these ideas and intuitions through a diagrammatic visual language. I was initially drawn to attention, as it is arguably the most salient feature of consciousness. As well, I was is influenced by the intersection of my layman’s research into cognition and consciousness and my lifelong study and practice in Buddhist philosophy. Counter to William James’ famous hydraulic metaphor, “stream of consciousness,” many of these paintings entertain attention as a decidedly fragmented and nonlinear operation, yet one we falsely believe to be otherwise—not so different than when a film slows to fewer than eighteen frames per second and reveals our perception of continuous movement as an illusion.