Soma
Drawing, mixed media (displayed with a deconstructed Gray's Anatomy book)
84 x 57 in.
2015
“Soma” represents the internal tensions of the body as mᾱchina. For the artist, the work is about corporeality, as much as it is nothing more but the intermingling of organs like a ‘skinful’ of meat. The confluence of multiple parts exhibits the body from a multitude of perspectives or modes of the corporeal self. The complexity that is manifest between several foci drawn together exert mutual mulls and are made to co- exist maintaining an ongoing figure- ground dynamic in the gestalt of a single matrix. As Leibniz writes, “all bodies are in a state of perpetual flux like rivers, and the parts are continually entering in and passing out”. In “Soma”, the flux of parts and layers can be understood not only in a physical but also in a phenomenological sense. (Words by Gian Cruz)
