Deric Carner frames art as an embodied practice rooted in touch, repetition, and material play rather than detached intellect. His chaotic studio becomes a site where forms emerge through intuition and experimentation. Rejecting rigid planning, he treats materials as active collaborators, allowing accidents and physical engagement to guide meaning. Art, for him, is not conceived fully in the mind but discovered through the body’s interaction with the world.

"Philosophical theorizing is made for human beings, and it should fit human beings, and not the other way around."

"Our habitual ways of speaking and thinking can seem inadequate to the task of expressing the reality of being human."

"There is a deep-rooted folk concept of the human organism, which assumes that our bodies are pure and uncontaminated by outside matter."

"Who can speak is a fundamental political question – both in the meaning of who is allowed to speak, and who is seen as a speaking being."