Todd Thomas Brown
Todd Thomas Brown is an interdisciplinary artist who has dedicated 20 years to cultivating “spaces of encounter” - environments that facilitate happenstance social interaction through deepening and diversifying cultural participation. He says he draws his inspiration from the example of biodiversity that can be seen through the world's ecosystems, where everything is interdependent and evolving through a continuous interweave of relationships. Similar to what author and art critic Suzi Gablik once described as the “aesthetics of connection”, Brown states, “When people enter into a feeling of connection, they become more alive. It’s really that simple. . . and it’s remarkable how this immediately enlivens their own sense of a creative existence”.