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The Body Cosmos- December 11, 2004By looking through a broader lense we redefine our anatomy by noticing the similarities we have to all other living systems. By observing the sacred geometry in ourseves as part of the natural world, (spirals, branching, spheres, meanders, honeycombs..,) we invoke a sense of reverance for our organism. Painting and moving my body out of this awareness, creates a completely different experience. Twentith century concepts of what our body is are informed by what is driving the society. In the case of the mechanistic views of the body, this originated in the industrial revolution. With the onslought of the technological age our society compares the body to computers. Although we may have aspects of our bodies that seem to resemble machines and computers are bodies are much more than those limited perspecitives. We are complex fluid resonate systems. This series playfully explores the realm of shapes found in our viscera, bones, circulatory sytsem, nervous system, muscles and cartilage, connective tissue, fluids, cells and skin. It is an outgrowth of my movement exploration.
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The Body Cosmos: Alveoli, Eggs or Planets
Acrylic on canvas
64" X 48"
$600 plus tax and shipping
This first painting is the series is an inquiry into spherical shapes and space. Once nature creates a form we see the same shapes at all levels of reality from the subatomic to vast reaches of our galaxy. Our bodies and all living beings share the same shapes and mechanisms holding every complex form invented by nature through the grand architecture.