DONKWEAR

A project that was a collaboration with Donkwear, a Manchester-based designer that explores music and working-class in the most profound way creativity.
This topic of "Fallibility of human perception" is referenced here but as well as the paradox of mind over the body as a reductionist concept. I have created a series of images that showcase the entanglement of mind and body as a singular unit and we cannot completely rely on this divide. My aesthetic and the storylines I've developed focus on things with satire, black humour, incongruity, and the denigration of logic. Upon reflection, I've come to appreciate the relationship between sensory perception and uncertainty more as a result of my research. By doing more research on these subjects, I was able to learn that Dali's paranoia had an installation in double images, visual manipulation, and the mental process that caused it, which may be seen as a response to Descartes' pursuit of certitude/cartesian doubt. The part of my view that disagrees with Descartes is the division between the mind and the body, where the self is placed in the mind or the soul (Cogito ergo sum), and the body is inferior, mechanistic, and just a thing or object. This point of view makes it possible to dehumanise "the body" and its "knowability."