The imagery includes a picture of my own body reclining, twice its actual length but showing only a small section in height. Superimposed over this is a sequence of small images dispersed along the length of the piece, consisting of medieval monster figures (from Konrad von Megenberg's Buch der Natur, 1475), a small drawing inside a glass bottle, and dividing cells.
The Solitary portrays the reproduction of my own self as an auto-generated artificial progeny, and suggests that human nature is hybridized and imperfect.
"Keeping all eight cells" refers to the process of in vitro fertilization, in which there is an option to remove one or two cells at the eight-cell stage of the embryo, for genetic testing.
