Some of you may have seen a recent post I put out on Facebook and Instagram where I juxtaposed a quote about intestines from Kafka by the Shore by Haruki Murakami with a sculpture I made of the same motif?
I’m so fascinated by the replication and mirroring of forms inside our bodies with those outside in nature and the metaphoric significance of these relationships. It’s something I really only understood after participating in a human dissection workshop and saw inside the human form-; the way cloud formations reflect the striations of fascia along the illiotibial band and spinal column, the mother of pearl luminosity and silkiness of our tendons, the oceanic-like forms of our abdominal viscera, the upside down oak tree of lung, the feathered delicacy of the oblique muscles, the list goes on ad infinitum.
I see and feel reassured by these connections and the understanding that nature and the animal kingdom has an internal equivalent in me and me with it. I am both in awe and take great comfort that we are not separate (from one another or the world around us) but are forever reverberating, resonating and reflecting alongside and in relationship to one another.
Laura van Tatenhove 