My work generally does not incorporate representations of the body, though occasionally it does. For example, this portrait I made of Frank Zappa a couple years ago. I had developed this method of drawing where I make lots of little cell-like shapes of various size that fit together to make a larger shape, and I noticed that the same method could be used to render light and shadow, by altering the size and density of the cells. I also thought a face would look cool when drawn this way, so I tried it out and I really like the result. It is at once organic (the subject matter, the cell-like divisions) and non-organic, because many of the cells have sharp corners. It evokes a road map of a place like Europe where the settlements have developed organically with no plan.
Another way that my work sometimes deals with the body is my fascination with eyes. Eyes are very aesthetically interesting to me. I did one large painting of a human eye in which the whole thing is made up of an intricate mesh of shapes, similar in many ways to the Zappa portrait, as if the eye were composed of circuity. Again, this theme of technology that is always present in my work. When I make art that contains the body, it is usually in relation to technology.
