Original artwork description:

This is an ongoing series where I study the lines, the balances and counterbalances of the body of a friend as she performs handstand positions. These positions are very interesting because they show us how much more our bodies can do than we could expect.

From a schopenhauerian point of view, our bodies are the manifestation of the Will. As the artist allow us to experience the Will through art, but outside our bodies, these movers can teach us to experience the Will inside our bodies by allowing them to flow freely in all their potential.

As Schopenhauer showed our bodies are made of the same thing as the rest of the noumenal world (the Will), and are the way to experience only way to experience directly that we have. Through art we need an external source, an artifact outside our bodies made by someone else to experience the Will and therefore feel free of our distress even for a while. By getting in touch we our bodies, learning about them in a practical manner we can achieve the same thing but directly, without the need of an external trigger.

With all that it only makes sense that we bring art and body together. No wonder artist have always been fascinated by the human body.

Materials used:

Oil on plywood