Introduction
My wall drawings, 2D wall reliefs and drawings on paper consist of various parts of the body drawn on the basis of MRI-, CT scans and autopsy images. These drawings show internal interwovenness, fusion, and a transparently overlapping convergence of bodies. With my ‘open’ bodies, I appeal to sexual passion and a longing for spiritual affection.
‘Scanning for symbiosis’ is the coordinating title for the drawings I have been working on in the past period of time. Besides considering Scanning as an intrinsic theme, I also conceive the act of drawing as the investigation of processes of interhuman convergence. Many of the drawings contain rotating or swastika-like motions. I employ this symbolism of the solar wheel in order to interpret human interactions as an energetic, dynamic symbiosis.
I look upon my drawings as temporary fusions, as stills from film shootings. In order to show different sorts of convergence, I navigate my way through Plato’s ideas as represented in ‘The steps of love’. Between the higher spiritual and the lower sexual form of love, various body shapes float or entwine across or alongside each other in transparency. In other works, the bodies melt together like temporary eliminations of individuals, as if in euphoria transferred to the domain of orgasmic delight. Tongues penetrate the brain through eye sockets, a vagina conjugates with testicles and two hearts form a perpetuum mobile.
I reinforce the experience of the internal body by creating wall drawings and wall reliefs which are larger than the visitor. By employing this monumental scale, I enhance the physical experience of the visitor. I hope that my work will initially be experienced ‘from the abdomen’, to gradually make itself felt in the mind of the visitor.
I play with ambiguous and ambivalent tendencies, such as the symbolic meaning of red, the beauty of transected bodies and parts of the body situated outside that body. Loveliness and morbidity; both Eros and Thanatos flow through my red lines.