The world of the senses
Beauty enjoyment, symbolic, cosmic images of eternal masculinity and eternal femininity: these two essences are attracted to each other and become one, in a cosmic embrace, an animalistic fusion. The woman with her grace and mauzia is beauty concentrated, life incubator. Mysterious and magical body. Her body attracts other bodies and through laws of physics, astronomy, chemistry; her body becomes cosmic. The woman as object of desire but also as subject of love.
The magical combination created when man and woman are fused together they have the power to evoke the sensual perception of the moment: a culture of pleasure and vitality. Within this tension the bodies of man and woman, together they enjoy the cosmic thrill and through thought also they live an experience of the senses; a striptease of the soul.
The Greek cosmogony recognized eros as the creator of the world; a cosmic eros which reveals the force and power of attraction, to attract everything which is spatially faraway and bring it nearby love is without doubt one of the most tender pleasures. Forever loving more and more one day we will be able to resolve all our problems. Beauty is enjoyment.
Aristotle said ‘Love is the soul shared by two bodies’. Our body is our world and the way we perceive sensations and emotions and also ecstasy; a state which is very congenial to me and which inspires me everyday in my research. Eroticism is in fact directly connected to ecstasy. According to Klaves, in ecstasy the soul doesn’t free itself from the body but from the soul.
Ecstasy is the temporary cancellation of the self, which is erotically fused infinitely with the infinite. In Faust, Goethe said ‘The shiver is the best part of humanity; for how dearly the world makes us pay for sentiment, man when he is moved deeply lives the immeasurable.’