Void

Something happens when I go underwater. It’s as if the surface acts as a veil under which my thoughts have a lot more resonance, a deeper presence, as if the water osmoses them out of my skull, projects and energizes them. They transform from feeble electrical signals firing erratically in my brain to a thick, viscous plasma that my whole being swims in and rejoices. In that sense, going underwater has always been like entering an inner space for me, a private space of reflection and thought, and that’s the space that I wanted to represent in this series - “the inner void”. That place in the dark where our deepest secrets live and every feeling begins. Our ultimate hiding place.

It was from this place that I wanted to conduct an inquiry about femininity. First about my relationship to women and the Divine Feminine as a heterosexual male in an age where toxic masculinity has been duly signaled out and castigated; and later also as a study of my own feminine-masculine polarity and what relating to the feminine within me means in my development as a person in search for more wholeness.  

With Frances and Gabrielle, separately,  we explored the idea of the unfurling of the feminine; how the feminine must activate and magnetize in order to host and hold the masculine, and how it is the masculine’s purpose to incite the feelings in the feminine to bring about this magnetism.