Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

I am an organized, fun, and outgoing chic looking for group soul mates who are organized, outgoing, and willing and open to learn!  I like positive people!

People to bring elements of (just throwing out ideas of potential soul mate contributions):

1. Photography

2. Study physical body/ body image

3. Statues/art form study (ex. Michelangelo statues, like The David)

4.  The Body as a machine
 
5.  The physical self

What I am exploring:

Studying different elements of the body in fitness.  Why is there such an obsession with fitness and muscles?  I think fitness and health is very important and I love "the body" and it's muscles.  Body as a machine; how body works.

An inspiring figure/ artist to study: Michelangelo and how he took a block of marble, imagined the body and its every muscle (skin folds, angles ,etc.) and then take this body image and manifest a being into an inanimate object.

Another inspiring figure: Leonardo da Vinci and his robot (possibly built the first humanoid robot in Western civilization).  He modeled the human limbs with cords to simulate the tendons and muscles.  Definitely a good example of the body as a machine.

I want to eventually teach some type of fitness class/s (kick boxing or weight training) and this project will help me on this path.  I think it is very important to keep active and I enjoy working out.  I think the human body is beautiful and I want to explore the different aspects of it and the way it works, more specifically through fitness.