Artist Statement for Synergy
A healthy holistic person is comprised of several elements. Humans are fragile amazing beings and when any fragment is unhealthy, the person as a whole is unhealthy. This work is a reaction to me analyzing what keeps a person alive. What is this energy with in us? What gives us the illusion of being individual and is it separate from our physical reality? And how does the body and mind work together to make a functional human being?
This series of sculptures is a breakdown of what composes a person. At one end, lifeless bodies gaze eyeless into the distance visually displaying an absence or sickness of the mind. These figures are shells, they are shells void of the energy and life that makes a compete person. The figures slowly evolve into a sickness and decomposition of the body at the opposite end. The final figure has forms of energy or mind trying to escape the dying body. The color scheme and scale allows us to disconnect ourselves from these figures. They are recognizable as people but these alterations add a disassociative value. This allows us to separates ourselves enough to really take a more objective look at what we truly are as humans.
In showing this, I am confronting the viewer with the fragility of humanity. The complexity of our systems are so multifaceted that we do not truly have a cohesive idea on how everything works together to make us operate. The body and the mind, core or selfhood are one in the same. When the mind becomes sick, the body slowly begins to weaken and break down. As the body weakens, it becomes a trap that the mind resides in against it’s will. Realizing and acknowledging these correlations is important to our well being. These correlations are here for a reason, and in not realizing this we are missing out on what truly makes us human.
A healthy holistic person is comprised of several elements. Humans are fragile amazing beings and when any fragment is unhealthy, the person as a whole is unhealthy. This work is a reaction to me analyzing what keeps a person alive. What is this energy with in us? What gives us the illusion of being individual and is it separate from our physical reality? And how does the body and mind work together to make a functional human being?
This series of sculptures is a breakdown of what composes a person. At one end, lifeless bodies gaze eyeless into the distance visually displaying an absence or sickness of the mind. These figures are shells, they are shells void of the energy and life that makes a compete person. The figures slowly evolve into a sickness and decomposition of the body at the opposite end. The final figure has forms of energy or mind trying to escape the dying body. The color scheme and scale allows us to disconnect ourselves from these figures. They are recognizable as people but these alterations add a disassociative value. This allows us to separates ourselves enough to really take a more objective look at what we truly are as humans.
In showing this, I am confronting the viewer with the fragility of humanity. The complexity of our systems are so multifaceted that we do not truly have a cohesive idea on how everything works together to make us operate. The body and the mind, core or selfhood are one in the same. When the mind becomes sick, the body slowly begins to weaken and break down. As the body weakens, it becomes a trap that the mind resides in against it’s will. Realizing and acknowledging these correlations is important to our well being. These correlations are here for a reason, and in not realizing this we are missing out on what truly makes us human.
