Soma

About this work

Soma We live in a society that has normalized the idea of needing something external for everything: to sleep, to wake up, to perform, to relax. Pills, supplements, capsules… as if simply living were not enough. In this work, I capture that silent voracity: a character who devours relentlessly, without savoring, without stopping. Just as we swallow medications without questioning, seeking instant solutions, forgetting that the essential might lie within. Aldous Huxley, in the novel Brave New World, 1932, used the term SOMA to refer to a drug supplied by the State to keep the population docile and happy. Perhaps, just perhaps, we have embarked on a drift: we anesthetize the world with pharmaceuticals and consumer prescriptions, and in the meantime, we lose the practice of listening to our bodies and paying attention to who we are. The true cure is not always in a pill — sometimes it lies in stopping, looking, listening, and allowing silence to teach us.