“… this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence … a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.” Plato, Timeus, 4th century B.C.

“Anima Mundi,” is a contemplation of human existence and a search for who we are. “Anima Mundi” is a philosophical concept postulating an intrinsic connection between all living things on the planet. The aim of the work is to focus on the inseparable link between all human beings and our relationship with Nature.

The handcrafted artefact is made using human biological material, sealed inside a resin cast and is a representation of human unity. The materials inside the resin are the symbolic excess of feelings: the waste material of emotional acts. What is contained inside the cast are the exudations produced by or accompanying the experience of feelings and emotions.

Sensations are mediated through the things we see, do and hear, through our actions and our personal responses. “Anima Mundi” seek to demonstrate the figurative aftermath of our feelings, responses and emotions. It articulates an external materialisation of sensation, creating a synthesis between thought and object, between a feeling and its aftermath.

The surface of the resin is a barrier and protection acting in a similar way to the skin that protects our inner organs. The abstract form of the sculpture is based on illustrations designed by participants in response to feelings of loss, despair, love, parental love and euphoria.

The intention of the work is to stress what connects us, what flows between us joining our inner private worlds with our external expression of feelings. It challenges the incommensurability of the exchange between inside and outside, between feelings and their phenomenological expression. It asks if we are all transcendentally connected then why does a proximity to feelings sometimes overwhelm and disconnect us from reality and from each other?