comparative physiology31 August 2010
So I have been horsing around (yuk yuk) with some new visual concepts during my spare moments, and I recently fleshed out this idea.
>ballpoint pen on paper. 7 x 14″, 2010
You’ll find I am among the many artists with an enthusiam for science, biology and natural history, and I’ve become absorbed in how certain shapes mimic that of human anatomical bits: a seahorse’s body echoing the s-curve of a human spine, a ribcage and digestive system located on the underbelly of a horseshoe crab. This interest in anatomy is perhaps part ego; a curiosity rooted in the desire to explore the backbone and underlying structure of our physical form and emotional condition. Plus I think for the way the visual artist’s brain is wired, biology resonates most for its visual and tactile accessibility. I hated physics. I hated chemistry. In a parallel existence I may have been a surgeon (assuming in this parallel world I also occupied a higher intellectual bracket.)
There will be more where this came from if I don’t get too overwhelmed by other distractions.