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I'm going to talk, for a moment, about the term "visceral." According to the Wiktionary:

Etymology

From Latin viscera, plural of viscus (“any internal organ of the body”).

Adjective

visceral (comparative more visceral, superlative most visceral)

1. (anatomy) Of or related to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.
2. Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking. Often described as intuition; compare gut feeling, gut reaction.

It's that second definition in which I am interested, specifically the idea of "visceral" as the opposite of intellect. It seems fitting to think of my work in the context of so-called gut feelings and gut reactions. Gut feelings are regarded as reflections of some divine intuition instead of rationality. They may thus represent what is inevitably recognized without due logic. These are implicit thoughts, ones that we cannot easily shake.

How wonderfully appropriate that these are called gut feelings. It appears that there is indeed an intimate connection between what is visceral and what is inescapable. This is how I'm trying to present my work: the imagery represents the landscape of the body as a foreign but (dare I say it) simple a fact of life. It can only be understood to a certain degree and its associations cannot be ignored.