I see human anatomy and form as the most impressive work of art there is. We make choices and accessorize—some to blend in, some to stand out from the crowd. Regardless of our attempts to enhance, disguise or cover our anatomy, there’s no escaping that our particular anatomy to a great extent serves in describing our person. We can add personality, education, degrees of fitness, layer up with expensive makeup and haute couture but the characteristics of our person and figure remain the same—our figure is very much about who we are, our person and that’s what I seek to draw attention to with much of my work.
I’ve typically focused on the human experience, intending to bring a quiet and perhaps peaceful feeling or mood across to the viewer by composing the figure accordingly—but not this time.
Here I addressed the figure, beautiful as it may be all on its own—as a medium, not so much a person, not expressing a feeling or setting a mood but as a medium to serve an aesthetic aim.
I aimed to sculpt the intrinsic qualities of the figure: form, light and shadow into a new and almost independent object of art—and I quite like the result.
Baagøe Jepsen 