Transformative + Materialistic Bodybuilding

“Her muscled back splays her spine- a zen archer’s bow, shooting off arrows of power into the springtime hills. Her thighs and calves launch her up cliffs over oceans, into herds of impalas in African deserts, or into outer space among rockets and comets. .. her heart is no longer cowering behind rib walls, and her pectoral muscles, not simply holding firm her breast, reach out to embrace and hold children, lovers, small animals, and savage beasts against the warmth of her heart. She no longer folds her hands protectively about the cave of her abdomen and womb. Her fingers are no longer antennae of insects and tendrils of vines; they close in fists that open breaches in the walls of the gym, the house, and the city, and extend talons to carry off us with her” – Alphonso Lingis