Breathing: An artist’s reflection on the visualisation of an interoceptive experience. The figurative imagination dissolves into the flux of process
Barker, Garry 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1686-3738
(2023)
Breathing: An artist’s reflection on the visualisation of an interoceptive experience. The figurative imagination dissolves into the flux of process.
PSIAX, 7.
pp. 9-22.
ISSN 1647-8045
Abstract
Visualisations of interoceptive sensations slide between visual invention and memories of past experiences, between a need to rely on physical resemblances to other objects and a more abstracted understanding of energy flow. This report explores how images that rose unbidden from the unconscious when trying to visualise a particular somatic experience, were then taken formally further on, as another set of images were developed that responded to more abstract visual principles. This research report also explores how interoceptual research can become inseparable from a growing awareness of how the body knows itself and its own metaphors. Centred on a reaction to a Covid-19 induced problem with breathing there is an attempt to show how in the mind images are enfolded into a continuum whereby differences between subject and object disappear. As the process of drawing and image making develops, the artist first of all finds parallels between remembered visual forms and his experience of the sensations associated with being unable to breathe, then on reflection, a further series of drawings are produced that are responses to the process or flow of somatic awareness.
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