Take an audio tour of a 2022-23 exhibition at The Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum! Listen to artist Lee Boot chat about his show "Lee Boot: Abstracts & Artifacts," on view at The Peale from November 2022-January 2023. You can see videos and interact with more media files using Smartify, the ultimate cultural travel app! Includes 21 narrated stops.

Lee Boot (00:00): So now you've made your way into the garden view room, and if you went left when you went in the door, you're now looking at the first of a few photographs taken by Dan Bailey, who was the former director of the Imaging Research Center when I was associate director. And these are of a project called SEEe Intuit. This whole, this, this particular photograph, and all of the work on the wall to your right, is all part of this project called SEEe Intuit. And this is a further exploration of intuition, of human intuition. You recall that when you looked at the video of different paintings being painted, I talked about the importance of intuition. Um, this was a project, this SEEe Intuit project was a commission by the National Academy of Sciences. They wanted us to build a, a display for the first, I think it was called the USA Science and Engineering Exposition held on the National Mall in Washington, DC in 2010.

(01:07): And I thought, well, I'm, I'm an artist. I want to do something about human intuition. And so I did some research what, what papers were published on what intuition really was in the human brain. What scientists would call, what is the neural substrate? What is the neurological underpinning that allows human intuition to happen? What happens in your brain when intuition is happening in your mind is another way to put this. So I read these research papers, and they had really done a nice job of isolating where activity happens when people are trying to have an aha moment. You know they're trying, they're looking, they're, they're thinking of looking, searching through patterns in their mind, trying to maybe, you know, remember something or come up with a solution to a problem. And there's just this sequence of events that happens in your brain when that happens. And this booth gave people an idea of what that sequence was. And it also gave them a chance to kind of use their intuition to make some guesses, which we'll talk about when you're standing in front of the video to your right. But this is a photograph of that booth at the at the exposition. And you can see the rest of the photographs in this room are also photographs of that booth.