Synonymy

Synonymy, interprets the unsustainable and ephemeral characteristics of the physical human body. For every human being, bodily vulnerability and inevitable decay are a fact of life. No body escapes death. Simultaneously, my work seeks to examine the existence of an intangible self, the possibility of unseen metaphysical life energy, and/or the presence of a divine sustaining incorporeal spirit. All, which in the end, body and soul, may exist entangled as well as supersede one another.

My thesis research culminates in a kinetic, mixed media sculptural series of life-sized human figures. Each sculpture is rendered in a representational manor making apparent a sense of bodily individualism as well as energetically capturing its fluctuating homeostatic characteristics. Moreover, within each figurative vessel is an abstracted internal space that seems compositionally interconnected to the surface, yet is infinitely volumetric, formless, and otherly. For me, this ambiguous and luminous interiority suggest the mysterious unknowns that continue to surround our developing yet the limited knowledge about body, cognitive science, and the extraordinary universe around us.

Our primal sameness, our harmonious synonymy, is that we are all simply human. Every human is gifted a miraculous biologically evolving body, a fascinating sense of psychology, and a limited tenure on Earth called life. It is my intent to honor human individualism and celebrate life’s diversity while simultaneously recognizing a sense of certain universalisms to communicate an idea of unification, togetherness, and oneness. My hope is to generate a highly personal, introspective, and affective visual art experience that ultimately alludes to the intertwined, interdependent, and communal nature of humankind and the world we exist in. In the end we are all simply human.