This collection of my kidney stones was produced over a span of about two years. I call it my Inner Beauty Collection, referencing a comment made by one of the twin doctors in my movie Dead Ringers, who wonders why there couldn’t be a beauty contest for the insides of the human body. Well, here’s my nominated candidate. I see in these kidney stones a luminous narrative generated by a group of my inner organs, a narrative as intimate as a person could imagine. I think each stone presents a unique aesthetic of structure, colour, and organic content that engages with the mystery of my essence, my reality, which is my body, inside and out. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the collection also references my new movie, Crimes of the Future, which stars Viggo Mortensen as a performance artist whose art form involves public surgery on his own body, during which strange new organs of unknown function are removed and displayed. Art always has the last word.
