THE JOURNEY 

Works are centred on experiences of existence of this ageing female flesh-and-blood 'unit'. Using biological gender and cultural effects to explore and make visible an ongoing life,  the phenomena of being human today (a ' now-human'). Observing the corporeal structure with its medical events and interventions, memories, dreams and imagination, embedding them in the visual language of the works. The multi-helical journey steers through different art processes; drawing, painting, expressionistic figurative and abstraction, video, installation, built canvases and texts.  This 'now-human',  seeking out relationships with notions of the posthuman. 
                                      
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X/uberant (the joy of being alive) clicks into PROJECTS, where CURRENT WORKS opens to an ongoing series of Built Canvases . Yvonne Jones 2023- 24
Approaching the Posthuman through Art .
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Stelarc claims 'the body is obsolete',  Moravec that 'The Senses have no Future'.   Through my art practice I observe my own existence, exploring, exposing.   The significance of experience gained from the body, the senses, that Stelarc and Moravec dismiss. Humans to a mechanical life, with human qualities  eradicated, an endangered species.

By exposing questions of the relationship between  human and posthuman the works engage with socio transformative issues.  My born-female-corporeal-body draws in issues of feminism.  Peeling the Body brought focus to the ongoing issues of gender in the modern day, with the possibility of a posthuman subject  side stepping / rising beyond them.

Human, the characteristics commonly associated with human existence. Experiences through the senses, emotions, compassion, empathy, disease and mortality. 

Posthuman, the literal and the subject. The literal imagined by Hans Moravec, we transfer the ‘I’ of ‘me’ or ‘you’, into a new machine, leaving the worn out corporeal body behind, defunct,  making immortality possible. The posthuman (subject) written of by Katherine Hayles, accepts some of the notions of the posthuman, but continues to accept our mortality.  (yvonne jones http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/165501/.)

​We exist today between The Human and The Posthuman.
​​We live in an ever evolving posthuman world.
​A world where the artist Stelarc has claimed that the body is obsolete. 
Where the roboticist Hans Moravec states that the senses have no future. 
Where the postmodern literary critic Katherine Hayles urges us to surrender
to our natural life span and death rather than seeking immortality. 
Each work is Unique and of Itself, ​based on my corporeal existence​. 
The process of my work is one that travels through spirals, looping back, off at tangents, as it evolves.
Current Work shows the current position of the Journey. Each project is a step of The Journey.  
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