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Left Brained Art

Paradox into possibility

by Lukeus B. Allen

Give the dream a shape;
know the form is not the dream.
Wander, and wonder.

— LBA
14489φ = 1.618… WONDER REASON TEST BUILD REFLECT WANDER

01Wonder

Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory: soft melting pocket watches draped over a branch, a ledge and a sleeping form in a desert landscape
Time is softer than we think.Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory · MoMA · Photo: Lukeus B. Allen
Van Gogh's The Starry Night in its gold frame: a swirling blue night sky over a village and a dark cypress
Turbulence, painted by feel.Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night · MoMA · Photo: Lukeus B. Allen

02Reason

Looking down a spiral stone staircase inside the Sagrada Família, coiling inward like a shell
A staircase that thinks it's a shell.Sagrada Família, Barcelona · Photo: Lukeus B. Allen
The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, photographed by Hubble: two bright spiral arms dotted with pink star-forming regions winding around a glowing core, with a smaller companion galaxy at the right
The same spiral, at every scale.M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy · NASA, ESA / Hubble

03Test

Jackson Pollock's One: Number 31, 1950 on a gallery wall: a vast canvas of black, white and grey poured lines
Every drip, a decision.Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950 · MoMA · Photo: Lukeus B. Allen
Stencil graffiti: a red heart takes the place of the V in VANDALISM, written in dripping black capitals
One word. Two truths.Nick Walker · The Alexander, Indianapolis · Photo: Lukeus B. Allen

04Build

Rodin's marble sculpture The Kiss: two smooth embracing figures rising from a rough, uncarved block, lit against a window
The figure was always in the block.Auguste Rodin, The Kiss · Musée Rodin, Paris · Photo: Lukeus B. Allen
The Sagrada Família in Barcelona glowing gold at sunset, its spires surrounded by construction cranes
Begun in 1882. Still becoming.Antoni Gaudí · Sagrada Família, Barcelona · Photo: Lukeus B. Allen

05Reflect

A round stoneware plate with a white center and blue-grey rim, broken and mended with seams of gold, on white marble
The break is where the gold goes.Kintsugi pottery · Photo: Riho Kitagawa / Unsplash
Two photographs of the same plaza across from MoMA spliced down the middle: on the left, a grey daytime scene with a dumpster; on the right, the same stone column at night beside trees wrapped in Christmas lights, with a woman smiling as she peeks around it
Every life has a seam.Jesús Moroles, Lapstrake · West 52nd Street, New York · Photo: Lukeus B. Allen

06Wander

Earthrise: the half-lit Earth hanging in black space above the grey horizon of the Moon, photographed from Apollo 8
Go far enough, and you see where you started.Earthrise · Apollo 8, 1968 · NASA / Bill Anders
A cairn: six dark stones stacked as a trail marker in the rocky basin below Exit Glacier, Alaska, with mist and green hills behind
Not lost. Between markers.Exit Glacier basin · Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska · Photo: Lukeus B. Allen

Not knowing is where the next idea starts.

Begin again ↑

In practice

Same loop. Different canvas.

Made

The painting 1.618: grey, green, brown, cream and yellow squares in a golden-ratio tiling

1.618

A painting measured before it was painted.

Oil on canvas

Completed
A cast-resin brain filled with hundreds of pills and capsules, lit from within, on a pale wooden plinth

Depression

The light was inside the whole time.

Resin, prescriptions, light

Completed

Structural formulas

The molecule that helped, worn in the open.

Mental health awareness apparel · Concept: Lukeus B. Allen

Shop ↗

Completed

Built

Genomics laboratory

From the Open Gallery to a sequencing lab. Program manager.

Labcorp (Covance)

Announcement ↗ · Opening ↗

Completed

COVID-19 testing lab

Idea to first patient result in under 19 days. Then 3M+ tests.

Labcorp (Covance)

COVID-19 ↗ · Teamwork ↗

Completed

My Green Lab

A sustainability culture, not a poster. More than $5M saved, plus International Freezer Challenge awards.

Labcorp · My Green Lab Ambassador and Accredited Professional

Certifications ↗ · Freezer Challenge ↗

Completed

Tablet manufacturing process

Chemistry, made repeatable. Filed for patent.

Eli Lilly and Company

Completed

Indianapolis site plan

Planned years before it was approved: a 50-acre campus for Central Laboratory Services.

Labcorp (Covance)

Press release ↗

Opening 2030

Chronicled

  • Marvel multiverse map

    Every Earth, numbered. Every screen story, in order. Explore the map →

    Updated Nov 2026

  • Dune, in order

    Every book, story, film, show and graphic novel, in order. Explore the order →

    Updated Nov 2026

  • IndyStreetArt

    A city's walls, documented one piece at a time, 2016–2019. Instagram ↗

    Completed

  • Rock chronology

    Music history, one studio album at a time. Explore the waves →

    Updated Nov 2026

Building

Quantitative trading research

Most patterns are noise. Find the ones that aren't.

Statistical models built to scale into action. Nothing here is investment advice.

In progress

Lukeus B. Allen

Creative systems thinker. Analytical chemist. Lean Six Sigma MBB.