**Axo is an abstraction of the human mental condition.** **Axo** translates the perceived disorder of the highly complex and ordered system of mental state into a generative system and interactive experience. Each work has neurons. Each neuron has a nucleus at its source and fires electrical signals searching for synaptic connections. The signals, or in this case, pixels, act in accordance with the current mental state, which periodically enters states of stress, awareness, re-centering, reprogramming, and more. The work explores neuroplasticity, or the brain’s ability to change it’s synaptic pathways, materializing our cognitive flexibility and rigidity, inviting us to consider what barriers prohibit growth and positive change in our lives. Born out of personal experience, **Axo** is part observation of my own mental state and part research, analysis, and reflection. Each of us is a node on the societal network. The effects of our individual state ripple out impacting the network as a whole. As such, each **Axo** can be connected with and influence other works in the collection. Awareness can spread and evolve the network, just as stress can cause chaos. This is possible when multiple works are hosted together in the same webpage or connected via api (sample code available on project website). Through **Axo**, we demonstrate that we can change our synapses and learned behaviors. We need not be beholden to the limited knowledge, bias, and prejudice of our conditioning. **Axo** opens a dialogue on personal growth and societal change at the intersection of cognitive science, art, and technology, inviting us to envision a better existence, a harmonious network, underlining that this utopia is only a shift in perspective away. **Axo** is fully responsive, built using javascript & my own pixel-easing algorithm. The code is 19kb with no external dependencies. **Interactivity** Each Axo has a default state, though the viewer can also take control and influence its state of mind using the following keys: "a" => awareness Toggles awareness "f" => freak out Toggles a freak out. "p" => stuck in past Toggles being stuck in the past. May not do much while in awareness. "c" => centered Toggles centering the state of mind. "d" => disabled fate Disabled fate disables any auto-state changes, so the state of mind will only change with interaction. "w" => willed experience Axo can be curated by the viewer and replayed later. By pressing W, all interactions up to that point will be collected and the work will reload with a new link that can be saved and replayed at any time. "0-9" => rigid pathways at specified reprogramming Axo’s current state can be preserved at any of the first ten states of mind. If a viewer were to press 8, Axo would flow through the first seven changes, then stop at the 8th state change. "z" => scale up "x" => scale down Scale up/down to view in more detail, improve performance, or just gain a different perspective. "s" => save a still Each Axo can be curated using the keyboard, query string, and/or programmatically posting messages from a host page. Axo is an art project by S. Ryan O'Connor, aka jiwa.