BIOMEKANICS

i first became familiar with the term biomekanics through my interest in  H.R. GIGER , and it has become the word i use to describe my style and philosophy of image making. struggling with a trauma in my teens, I came to envision an alternate reality, very real to me at the time, but undoubtably the product of a breakdown. The place I visited while under the influence of this emotional maelstrom was a place where the weakness bred into me by culture and genetics was filtered out through machinery. More than a kind of neo-futurismor interest in how technology affects us, my idea for biomekanics essentialy embraces the cold logic of the raw machine and replacesour own diluted cognitive processes and instincts, which I believe to be a byproduct of a weak culture. In this state, pain would cease to be a hinderance, along with indecision, love, hate, fear, all these things filtered out through souless machinery. In my world I became the biomekanick, ripping out weak meat in exchange for the certainty and strength of the steel engine.

As I matured, I realized these thoughts and visions were the recipe for creating a sociopath, and fine tuned my philosophies, however to this day i am fascinated by how unbreakable my snapping made me feel. while obviously unbalanced, I feel this survival mechanism of the human mind is the key to discovering what Nietzsche described as ubermensch, the advanced animal we would become without the cancer of this culture and religion and all the other world-induced weaknesses interwoven around our genes like a cage.

For me the monstrosity of the bio-morphicforms in my work, express not only my dark love for this place, but also how twisted and bestial it can become. Most of my imagery deals with weakness and the combating and neutralizing of it and it has been described as brutal and abrasive . I believe that if you compare my biomeckanical ideas to the real world and not some hallmark induced utopia, these images aren’t as disturbing. Perhaps they even show hope in the human animal and it s ability to overcome it s greatest enemy.....

 

it s self.