Daniel Ortigoza
Daniel Ortigoza
Luminous Darkness
Terror Management theory proposes that nearly all human activity is driven by fear of death: one of life’s greatest mysteries and its ultimate inevitability. What if, instead of being afraid, we could embrace death? There’s a certain beauty in knowing that life is finite and that everything will come to an end, for everyone—because there can be no death without life. This recalls one of the most debated topics: life after death; a ponderable imponderable. There are many varying and opposing philosophical, religious, and cultural views on this but there can be no definitive answer. And yet, by acknowledging the saliency of mortality, we acknowledge the sureness of death and, indeed, its beauty. I am intrigued by the idea that we are more than our physical selves. As a multidisciplinary designer, I use the human body together with the nuances of textiles and fashion as points of inspiration and create pieces that showcase the fact that the human body is more than a material object, more than a finite being in space. The work is a celebration of beauty, literally and existentially: the beauty of the human form, the beauty of mortality, the beauty of death.
Daniel Ortigoza
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More Than Materiality
Release of the Soul
Divinity
Illusive Space
Rebirth
Mortem