Moving Still Lifes
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Digital photograph of original gift and details of charcoal drawings (see below) with superimposed projection .
During Lockdown 2021 I searched for different ways to connect and to focus on the materiality of my practice. Collaborating distantly with my dance-artist daughter, I drew large, expressive drawings in response to her improvised movements. Working that way inspired me to make a new series of woman-sized, dynamic charcoal drawings, based on a Mother's Day gift of flowers. The resulting anthropomorphic charcoal “moving still lifes”, are shown in a meditative space, with a close-up film moving through the flowers projected over them, creating a sensuous hypnotic atmosphere, pushing and probing the elusive surface; playing with drama, intimacy, and spectacle.
The drawings hang as projections screens (see below, each about 160 x 150 cm, charcoal and graphite on Fabriano paper).
The drawings hang as projections screens (see below, each about 160 x 150 cm, charcoal and graphite on Fabriano paper).
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