Human Body and Its Extensions

" Everyone is most distant from himself." said by Nietzsche, which in my interpretation, reveals a solid fact that we barely know about ourselves, and of course, our bodies. We see ourselves through a mirror, we are the reflections in other people's eyes, we dress to know better about our outline, not even mention the organs reside within. The history of people being interested in human body can count thousand years back, and till today, many mysteries still need to be solved. Taken Da Vinci and Schlemmer as examples, we can clearly see that our perception towards human body changed from creating the "perfect human" to knowing body through motion. Humans in the drawings are finally not just stand, sit, smile, they are on the move.

As a great master from the Renaissance Period, Da Vinci is familiar to people with his sketches of human body.

Oskar Schlemmer was a teacher in bauhaus theatre workshop. His interest in body moves on to body motions.

Using theater as a method learning body not only because it's a collective art form, but also, the actors and actresses in the theater know what they are doing, they pay attention to their moves and react to it with conscious. They, in a way, are masters of body and narrators of human emotions. So, I try to visualize feelings with some simple doodles, to express happy, sad, angry......through my pen, to see if I can bridging body, space and senses. Before we go further, there is a important fact need to be clarified: there are way more than five senses human beings possess. Just the most common known concept " five senses" are mostly sensored by brain not body.

These are just my interpretations of a large variety of feelings people can have. I can add more to this sense and mood library. And as far as I'm researching this area. I keep wondering other people's perspective into body, sense, and space.

I can't list all the big names that are excellent at perceiving, but from Pina Bausch, Alvar Aalto, to Daniel Liberskind, their work told us, though as abstract as human body and senses can be, they can be translated, be manipulated, be told through different approach, into something great, something touching.