Following my last post, here is the first room of the open studio exhibition of my residency at DRAWinternational about the physicality of drawing as a recording of physical experiences.
As I have been suffering during the residency of frozen shoulders, I had to develop new ways of working that took into consideration my physical constrains.
Initially I worked on the floor, with sticks, ink, graphite, charcoal and house paint, capturing the free light movements of dandelion seeds.
The paper I ordered to keep developing those works nerver got delivered and the constant rain in the village meant there were no more dandelions flowers available. I got given some life size sheets of paper I decided to experiment with. The quality of that new paper was such that it got embossed at any contact. I then developed a series of work on scrunched paper by enveloping myself with the paper and moving with through different actions. I was interested in all the marks, scars of the paper that I searched and highlighted with charcoal marks. This process is recorded in my video work. Some of those drawings took an interesting physical life size presence.
I was also curious about what form a line created through the scrunching of an elastic around my body could take in contact of the fluidity of ink. By pouring ink, on the paper, it imprinted its flow to the accidental point of breakage of the paper. After drying, the paper, hydrophobic, maintain the open broken shape.
Finally I presented in the room a sculptural line of soft paper and strings, residue of experiments.
photographs credit Jade Decade