The human form, as a creation of nature, has often been cited as a source of beauty and inspiration for artists. For architects, the body becomes a form of space. As the first shelter in which the human spirit dwells, it is in essence the building block of architectural space. Corbusier, for example, argued this with the notion of the “
Modulor”, as did Leonardo da Vinci, with his Vitruvian Man, and others before him.
The notion of the body as landscape however, expands the concept of the body as space beyond the architectural, to an almost infinite scale.
These images, by
Carl Warner, simultaneously create a portrait of the human form that is fascinating in its detail, but they also abstract what we understand of the body, until it resembles something entirely different.
And then the images provide something of a window into our soul, reflecting our curiosity of the human body and our own sensuality.
Gratitude to
Behance.
