BODY
Can bodily capacities define thought systems? Phenomenological theories identify rationality as a product of the interaction between the human body and its environment, not as a static disembodied entity that everyone somehow plugs into. They assert it’s our bodies, not our thoughts, that define how we grasp reality and how much of its actual complexity we can recognize.
While our bodies shape our perception of reality, it is our social realities that form our perception of the body (fat is ugly, blond is sexy). The body is a master and a slave - it defines our view of the world but its own image is dictated by that same world.
This self-informed loop of cause and effect laid the foundation for my work. My animation is concerned with the struggle to understand reality beyond what our bodies allow us to see, and how this path often leads to ourselves.