Chasing the Light: Dreamscape of the Erotized Body

My visual language exults in themes of the erotic and the use of mixed media, in this case video and photography, allows me to explore and shape contrasting energies that form the eroticized body. In this current work, the viewer is taken on a subjective  journey through the erotic dreamscape of the subconscious in pursuit of the ultimate erotic desire - the orgasm, metaphorically seen as "chasing the light."

The video comprises several video vignettes that transcend the erotic imagination from the subconscious world of dreams into the conscious world of being. The video centers on the contradiction and paradox of the erotic experience that brings about tension and thus finds its release via the transgression of opposing energies that clash and ignite each other into a kaleidoscope of light and color - the orgasm. The sounds of breathing navigate the labyrinth of the subconscious dream world, yet simultaneously, one is acutely aware of being in the present conscious world; one is lost and found, invisible and visible. The paradox of the erotic experience.

The photographic component is made up of varying stills from the film that have been manipulated and moulded into submission via the subconscious and the erotic imagination, into the conscious world. Images are printed onto the surface of textured porous paper, whereby the conscious and subconscious - the visible and the invisible- merge and enter into a state of secretion and leave tattooed traces - printed images - of an erotic lived experience.

            The conscious erotic experience gets absorbed into the body and connects to the unconscious components of said body, detonating a combustion that results in the orgasm. As the orgasm filters through one's consciousness and unconscious, the soul gathers the residues of the event, such as memory and identity - the spiritual essence of a living being - and turns the experience into deep feelings of emotion. Eroticism is a cognitive conduit that channels sexual love-eros via art, into a philosophy based on lived experiences.

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