Nature of the Body, 1996

light projection, 5 colour photocopied photographs, slide (of brain drawing) projected in 50 stainless steel bowls of water

This installation represents consciousness and “being in a body” with images of parts of the body – the sense organs, heart, lungs and brain. They are represented through media of light. I am interested in concepts of embodiment. Modernity has meant disconnection from our bodies and the “natural” world and the Cartesian legacy is one of separation of mind and body. I chose the body, the organs by which we perceive the world and internal organs through which we conceive ourselves experiencing thought and emotion, as the “site” of our humanity.

Exhibited at Terre Commune/Common Ground*, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, July 12 – August 17, 1996 and Sequence Gallery, Chicoutimi, September 1996
Hamilton Artists Inc., March 20-May 2, 2009

*Terre Commune/Common Ground Artists: Guy Blackburn, Elizabeth Chitty, Claudine Cotton, Martin Dufrasne, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Ronald Thibert, Yves Termblay, Gayle Young. This artist exchange between Grimsby, Ontario and Alma, Quebec was also known as Cuesta.