![]() ![]() Some of the paintings are painted over older paintings, and I am endeavoring in the process of making the work to allow the vestiges of the old paintings to be rehoused in the composition or the detail of a new painting, in a mutualistic relation of past and present, just as the pluralism of our phylogeny is recapitulated in every cell of our body. Here I enjoyed the idea of bitterness of the lemon, especially when it concerned a kind of class relationship that occurs inside every eukaryotic cell. In this context, the waiters represent the mitochondria that live inside every cell in our body, and produce energy for our bodies using the citric acid cycle, an 8-step circular chemical reaction that powers all life on earth. I have also used the motifs of the waiter and of the lemon, both recurring images in my work. After twenty anatarakalpas, intermediate eons, because of traces of latent afflictions, the air mandala forms and so on, resulting in a container universe which is repopulated by sentient beings. These kinds of moments in life are called GodTalk. In Abhidharmakoa, at the end of the eon, all sentient beings are reborn in the two upper form realms, where their minds are in a state of dharmat. These paintings and sculptures are loosely motivated by the merging of these two subjects: ABBA and the origin of multicellular life. Feelings, words, images, ideas, random thoughts, signs that occur in your exterior environment, walking down the street and tripping over something or walking into somebody, or having an experience that you did not anticipate having that changes your life. I enjoyed the idea of ABBA as a multicellular organism, composed of cells or organelles that were the individual band members. ![]() The name and logo for the band fascinated me: a letter for each band member (Agnetha, Björn, Benny, Anni-Frid), the inverted B in the logo ABBA, the almost genetic mirroring of the AB pairs, and the 2 romantic couples that formed the band. In the music video for SOS, the faces of the band members are filmed reflected in a distorting mirror, their faces stretching and dividing like mitotic cells as Agnetha and Anni-Frid sing a song written by Björn, presumably about the end of Agnetha and Björn’s relationship. When it evolves from a single-cell to a multi-cellular organism, how does this singular ‘I’ become a ‘we’, and how does this ‘we’ resemble an ‘I’ to itself? How does my body, as a complex network of different cell groups have a sense of unity when it is in fact a community?Īs I was thinking about this subject, I was learning bass and playing along to ABBA videos slowed down half-speed on YouTube, which became a surreal and moving experience in itself. A single-celled organism is alive, has individual sentience, and its own will. ![]() In looking at this subject I was thinking about where the locus of identity would sit in a multicellular organism. Recently I have been reading about the dawn of multicellularity, and the different theories surrounding it, specifically Lynn Margulis’ Endosymbiosis theory. ![]()
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