Limbic proposes a tool to capture the moments when individuals begin to work as a symbiotic being and highlights the reactionary dance between these points.

This object locates that 'AHA' moment, when people begin to work not as individuals but as a collective group. It can only be successfully operated when three people decide to work together. The object is a two-axis three-degree drawing device. A person controls a single control point manually, having to respond to the others’ input to create a line drawing in the glass bead surface.

The process included a year of research into sources of creativity, sensory deprivation, brain function, and finally arriving at an exploration into studies of group deprivation and dynamics. The physical process involved self-experimentation; throwing myself into new experiences and studies to better understand the root of my own behavior and help apply my newly gleaned information into design.

The base form tapped into a preexisting geometric based visual style established in earlier projects and highlights my philosophy of continuous discovery. Choosing a new medium to realize the final physical form, and with the help of Kerr Concrete in Evanston, Illinois, I received a crash course in glass fiber reinforced concrete processes and hand made each form. GFRC concrete turned out to be a wonderful new medium, providing incredible strength and flexibility when working with complex forms, yet being lightweight enough to transport with each individual section weighing 175 pounds.