AUTOPOIESIS
Autopoiesis - Self-Creation (Greek: auto "self"; and poiesis "creation or production")
Seemingly self-sufficient, autopoietic systems are paradoxes of structure and function - autonomous processes, endlessly feeding back into themselves, living off themselves without reliance on other systems.
Some of these drawings are over 2 metres in height. Such large works are very absorbing to make and the process becomes mesmeric, unconscious. The hand is guided by the drawing and making one wonder what is creating what.
Like the Möbius strip, these images conflate inside and outside. At times they are an intestine, at others a muscular limb. The umbilical nature of some sections also hints at the link between mother and child and the physical merging of the two.
Systems within systems; indistict boundaries, blurred distinctions between constituent parts.
Its tempting to consider the human organism as a complete sum of many merging systems. It might provide the exemplary sole self-sufficient unit were it not problemetised by our complex relationships and myriad dependencies.
Geoffrey Harrison
Geoffrey is currently Artist in Residence at St. Bart's Pathology Museum in London
Seemingly self-sufficient, autopoietic systems are paradoxes of structure and function - autonomous processes, endlessly feeding back into themselves, living off themselves without reliance on other systems.
Some of these drawings are over 2 metres in height. Such large works are very absorbing to make and the process becomes mesmeric, unconscious. The hand is guided by the drawing and making one wonder what is creating what.
Like the Möbius strip, these images conflate inside and outside. At times they are an intestine, at others a muscular limb. The umbilical nature of some sections also hints at the link between mother and child and the physical merging of the two.
Systems within systems; indistict boundaries, blurred distinctions between constituent parts.
Its tempting to consider the human organism as a complete sum of many merging systems. It might provide the exemplary sole self-sufficient unit were it not problemetised by our complex relationships and myriad dependencies.
Geoffrey Harrison
Geoffrey is currently Artist in Residence at St. Bart's Pathology Museum in London