Natalia Lewandowska

Natalia Lewandowska is a graphic designer, researcher and filmmaker currently working and exhibiting in London. Her projects demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach through creative collaboration with fine artists, choreographers, professional dancers and scientists. Her artworks have been transposed into professionally bound books, installations, film screenings and exhibitions, reflecting the secret desires and anxieties affecting modern society. She also has extensive experience in landscape design and fine art photography.

Natalia’s current project is based on experimental research into the potential of the subconscious mind and dream reports at Harvard Extension School, where neurologists compared the state of delirium to the conscious sate of the human brain during sleep. It is possible that dreams, delirium and imagination are all connected by similar neurological states of human consciousness.

This ultimately led Natalia to design 'The Stimulant', an experimental hypnotic session that enables the human brain to reach high levels of activity and sparks imagination and creativity. Evidence of how the subconscious mind behaved during the experiment, showed that it is, in fact, the process of original thought that transforms participant’s ideas into powerful visions. Perhaps, in the future, this unusual technique will be used as a form of mental stimulation for writers, performers and artists seeking inspiration instead of reliance on alcohol and drugs.