Parallel Processing is about unifying the divided mind. The autocrat demanding order is kept in check by the anarchist wanting pure emotional release.  I achieve this balance by approaching my subjects from two directions simultaneously, on side-by-side easels, allowing the technical precision of post-impressionistic landscape painting to exist in concert with informationally dense symbolic abstractions.  This approach unlocked the realization that instead of conflict, the two-pronged approach to artistic creativity gives equal room for both chaos and order. This body of work serves to illustrate two specific places and two internal conflicts in the form of landscapes.  Merged with and bridging these landscapes are abstracted, unstructured emotional reflections on each location and conflict. Viewed as a whole, this series illustrates the influencing factors from multiple points in my life, both figuratively and abstractly, that quiet the conflict between the artist and the administrator.