The Intricacies

and Complexities

of our Physicalities,

Spiritualities

and Mentalities

At the beginning of this project, I would have described my work as focusing on psychopathology, but over the course of the term I have found myself steering away from the study of mental illness and instead experimenting with and observing the complexities of the human form, both objectively and as a spiritual presence. This image is a collage I created using a macro lens, examining the utterly unique details of the body. The Skin is something which I have examined in its authentic physical nature. Playing around with the grotesque versus the beautiful, I have practiced altering the viewer’s perception by transforming it from a biological layer of flesh to an imperfect optical medium of expression. Not only this, but I have been exploring the non-material existence of our own physicalities, exploring the spiritual and mental connotations surrounding our somatic being. The image and words chosen combine both of these examinations, presenting and incorporating the delicate nature of the skin of a hand with the distinctly gloss-dressed lips. Colliding the natural and artificial elements of our own characteristic appearances, the body is thus both an anatomical canvas to work on/with, as well as a metaphorical existence which can be limitlessly explored.