Something has taken our attention. Directed it, fragmented it, made it useful to systems that were never designed with us in mind. It’s the logic of the attention economy, built on what neuroscience knows about attentional capture, prediction, and reward.
Artesoma is a response to that. A neuroscience-informed space for attention and perceptual practice through creative inquiry.
The cost of sustained attentional fragmentation is real. A disconnection from sensation, from presence, from the texture of lived experience. This work is a fundamental reorientation toward what it means to be a perceiving, sensing being in relation to the world.
Art Thinking
Art Thinking is the framework underlying this work. It understands thinking not as a purely cognitive act, but as an attentional state that emerges through sensing, noticing, and relating.
Meaning isn’t extracted or resolved. It takes shape through presence.
It’s not a method. It’s an orientation.
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Shawna Tavsky is an interdisciplinary artist and therapist whose work centers on perception, attention, and the lived experience of making meaning. She works with individuals through therapy, creative guidance, and portraiture — supporting a more perceptive, grounded relationship to experience and process.
She holds an MSc in Body Psychology and advanced clinical training in Art Psychotherapy, and has spent two decades working across art practice and creative education in Mexico City.
Artesoma draws on her experience, bringing together perceptual inquiry and creative practice as ways of thinking and relating to experience.
