Bodies of Burden challenges the boundaries of the generative medium and questions how meaning is charged into images generated from absence. The work examines the human body as a site of experimental occurrence, detached from conventional human presence. In resonance with the writings of Gaston Bachelard, memory persists through physical matter and imagery. Bachelard proposes that the body remembers beyond conscious intention – that memory operates through sensation, movement, and spatial experience rather than narrative alone.
Within the work, the body becomes an archive where experiences are inscribed beyond conscious awareness. Each memory shapes gesture, posture, and presence, as accumulated knowledge and trauma form an embodied repository carried through time.