COGNITIVE DENSITY
Cognitive Density is the first sealed body of work in Matt McClaning’s ongoing investigation into how contemporary perception experiences calm and focus through structured complexity. Challenging the traditional association of tranquility with silence and reduction, this body proposes an alternative model—one in which repetition, saturation, and visual density function as stabilizing forces for minds shaped by constant stimulation, where complexity becomes soothing rather than overwhelming.
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Beyond the Yellow Brick Road 60" x 60"
It's Show Time 48" x 48"
Shattered Martini 60" x 60"
Peeping Buddha 72" x 48"
No Banjo 60" x 36"
Spring Lotus 60" x 36"
The Cosmopolitan 48" x 48"
Hot Tuna 72" x 48"
Red Dot 48" x 24"
A Bountiful Harvest 72" x 48"
3 Ring Circus 48" x 24"
Shaken...Not Stirred - 76” x 48”
Mimosa Mondays - 76" x 54"
One Step Forward - 48" x 48"
Make No Bones About It - 76" x 54"
Copper Top - 66" x 30"
Pink Moons - 66" x 30"
My Japanese Squeeze - 48” x 18”