Push Back! Reactions of the Human Body to the assaults of life

The concept for this project started as two different ideas firstly the effects on the body itself to the kicks and blows during Taekwondo, a martial art I used to do regularly. And secondly my thoughts on healthy living and the effects of an unhealthy lifestyle and diet. Combining these ideas could cover many different types of reactions, emotional, chemical, or physical.  I carried out and recorded experiments of external physical actions like a Taekwondo kick or punch which would damage ‘the body’ and then took this further onto a sculpted human form to record the reactions of ‘the body’. Our reactions give us are sense of who we are, I have investigated ways in which the human body pushes back with different physical reactions and what the survival response looks like. I would like to further explore these themes not only sculpturally but through performative art as well recording the emotional  ‘push back’.