JUNE NELSON
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Moving Still Lifes


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Digital photograph of original gift, with ​details of drawings with superimposed projection together with studio shots of video installation

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. They are the start of an ongoing project (here).
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 that hang as a projections screens are shown below  (each about 150–60 cm x 150 cm, charcoal and graphite on Fabriano paper).
Charcoal drawing, large, vase, flowers, black and white
Charcoal drawing, large, vase, flowers, black and white
Charcoal drawing, large, euphorbias, flowers, black and white
Charcoal drawing, large, tulips, flowers, black and white

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