A female torso, cropped and fragmented, bears an abdominal cavity that evokes both wound and womb, an opening that is at once vulnerable and generative.

Within this recess, the presence of a handmade butterfly transforms the site into a chamber of metamorphosis. The pearlescent paint within carries associations of fertility, and this interplay between anatomy and material suggests the possibility of reproduction, gestation, or the spark of life, yet it remains suspended between biological reference and symbolic ambiguity.

In relation to the earlier Body System I, which emphasized the merging of body and canvas, this work extends the inquiry into questions of reproduction, destruction, and the continuity of life. The butterfly (fragile, ephemeral, yet enduring as a symbol of transformation) emerges from the concavity as if life itself could be conceived within the painted body.

Body System II underscores the paradox of the body as both archive and future: a vessel that bears scars of rupture while also carrying the latent potential for renewal.