Don’t You Like the Green of A? is based on the correspondences between letters and colors specific to Joan Mitchell’s synesthesia––a condition that Henricks happens to share with her. Synesthesia is a neurological syndrome in which perception by one sense automatically triggers a perception in one of the other senses. This connectivity between senses may be manifested in different ways. For example, in grapheme-colour synaesthesia, numbers or letters are associated with colors; in music-color synesthesia, people perceive color by hearing a sound or music.

One plus one is two. Two plus two is four. Four plus four is eight. Eight plus eight is sixteen. Sixteen plus sixteen is thirty-two.

I am interested in unedited film and video performances made in the 1960s and 1970s by artists such as Yvonne Rainer, Bruce Nauman, Lisa Steele, and others. Doubling almost looks like it was made in the 1960s. It was conceived to be silent. It’s about the act of seeing; what we understand (or misunderstand) through appearances.