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): Now you're standing in front of a bouquet of silk flowers. Now, there's no wall label for this because there's a sort of bigger description that's sitting to the left of it on the, on the leaning against the wall. This bouquet of flowers is inspired by where in the brain these different active areas are located when human beings are searching their intuition for an answer or a clue or an idea. The reason I made this bouquet is I wanted to kind of celebrate that. Now it's a little hard admittedly to see what part of the bouquet relates to what part in that little drawing. But because that's kind of the way the brain is, it's not that easy to see where the activity is happening either. But the big yellow flower is the real heart of this intuitive activity.

(01:02): It happens on the front and top of your temporal lobe. And it's a magnificent capacity because while that is very active in your brain, your entire cerebral cortex, particularly your frontal cortex, is also very active. As you search through everything, you know, everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever experienced looking for a pattern, and that pattern is changing as you're searching through all of your experience. Basically, you're searching through all of your neural pathways, and the human brain does this at a blinding speed. It's again, still I think, the best thing that we do. It's a beautiful thing. I wanted to celebrate. So that's what these, that's what these flowers are about.