Pleasure of Ingestion
"Food! Food! Give me food now! No! I regret it now; I have to spit it out!"
"No! No! Don't give me food! If I eat, no one will love me!"
People with eating disorders seem to be caught in a terrible vortex of thought when it comes to food, and the amount of food they eat becomes a criterion for determining their social value in the world. As a young girl, I was once caught in the same vortex, and this experience convinced me that love is the way to heal the spiritual world.
I learned through research that the human brain produces dopamine during intimate acts and eating to generate the feeling of pleasure. In this project, I decided to use images of love and the collision of colors and materials to stimulate dopamine production in the brain to heal people with eating disorders. On the basis of Ardhanarishvara, (Sanskrit:
"Lord Who Is Half Woman"), I designed a composite image of the Hindu god Shiva and his consort Parvati, a man and a woman, to extract colors that symbolize the principle of the inseparability of male and female. At the same time, I use the Kabbalah Tree of Life theory to divide male and female separataly and them enlarge the ovenlapping parts when they perform intimate acts and abstract them with colors to build a balanced universe of love between male and female.
I experimented with tufting, inlay, and the use of various bioplasties. Through the process of experimenting for methods of healing eating disorders and regulating suffers health at the same time, I chose to combine bioplastics with various edible materials to achieve the best results in healing eating disorders.