Artist Statement: Evolution of My Animal

I do not know what kicks inside me, unnourished and unpolite, screaming in tounges that I am not what I take myself to be. Is this my id, or my shaman? Or an evolutitionary relic from an ancient lizard mind? All that's clear is we are changing, and my lure to be born again and die a different man is ripe with restlesness. I am a human animal, and yet this nature is somehow hushed by modern ways. I want to forget the past and future, and undefine my truth so that it can be made.

The meditation I devised begins where I begin, in the space where peace, and fear, contemplation and dreams spawn together: weightless in the dark. I am bound and held, warm but naked inside. I needed to share what I could not see myself: my face and my decision to be alive as seen from inside a lightless womb, and from the outside a body is shed. In a new world I am ready to grow again. The marks of the past have wrapped me, and their wires and tubes have tethered me to a womb-like mind I believed to be my natural man. But in a spirit-state of discotentment, and a yearning to be free to reach my own, I evolve deeper through and find my animal that is untamed and somehow pure.