At their heart, my investigations involve the nature of consciousness, especially the consciousness of and in the body. Through the unique circumstances of my life, I’ve gotten to know and feel mine from the inside out, and tune in to its proprioceptive, inner body sensors and signals.
To give context to my anatomy drawings of nerves and neural networks, I return to the figure … focusing on the dynamics of movement, the flow of energy, the pressure of gravity. As I draw my back in the embrace of a lover’s arms, I’m remembering the compelling thrill of the moment: our skin in contact everywhere, his hands on my malformed ribcage bringing comfort to the compressed vertebrae (locus of pain) below.
