Mind of Many makes use of ostrich eggshell beads and ochre coming from South Africa to visualize the creative explosion that instigated an unprecedented expansion of the human brain. By externalizing memory, inscribing meaning on matter, humans were able to store vast amounts of information that could be shared, stored, transported and exchanged with others. In the process they created a shared consciousness, an increasingly complex 'extented mind' that is the sum of all the external cultural capital available to humans, from tribal legends to fashion magazines and nursery rhymes to computer code. Mind of Many is a meticulous restoration attempt to recreate the 'big bang' of abstract symbolism which is perceived by most cultural anthropologists as the beginning of human modernity, originating on the African continent about 150,000 years ago.