Body language predates the use of verbal language. One cannot help but communicate on a physical level as one's subconscious directs the body's postures and gestures. The knowledge of another person's state of mind is a subjective, intuitive and emotional experience, as well as an intellectual analysis of what they are saying in words. The subconscious mind observes their motions and postures and stores them away as images associated with certain attitudes. Observers are absorbing these nuances of attitude with the intuitive non-verbal, or "right" brain mode.

As is common knowledge, artists function in the right brain mode when creating art. The images of body language are very accessible to this primary and intuitive aspect of our mind. As an artist I find body gestures or their equivalent representation emerge in my three-dimensional clay work as frequently as they are portrayed in my drawings. The angles of hands and arms, the tilt of the pelvis, and the curve of the spine become symbols of emotions we have all felt.

Artists are in a unique and valuable position in society. Through the depiction of body language symbols in their artwork, they can emote and purge an attitude that may be detrimental to their well being if suppressed or contained indefinitely. The artist can also express, and once again experience, a positive emotion. The viewer, likewise, can experience these processes when contemplating the art, due to the fact that the body language symbols create a subconscious response in them. The viewer may undergo a catharsis of suppressed emotion. Body gestures are ideal symbols of the struggle and joy of human communication.