Somatic Incisions

This body of work maps intense physiological events. With the body as metaphor, the composition often involves a focal central point that acts as a density moving in either direction, towards the outside (macro) as well as the inside (micro). This attempt at plotting subjective experience in relation to scale is a way to visualize cultural and linguistic conflict as it affects a system on both molecular and macro socio-political levels. Through repetitive addition, subtraction and variation of the mark, I build a dynamic system that pushes forth emergent qualities which lose the thread to their starting point. The compositions take on the form of maps that enmesh language with topography and matter.

DAVID SAMI