In this series, I explore modes of documenting the expressive and dynamic capabilities of the human body. My work lives at the intersection of performance art and sculpture, examining how bones, musculature, organs, and breath become both the artist’s instrument and materials. In The Body Drawings, I dedicated months to exploring all the possible ways to draw and document my body. Every day, I would create room-scale drawings in white flour on my black studio floor. Drawing with every part of my body, from my wrists and elbows to my neck and shoulders, I explore the strength and range of motion hidden away in the body’s chambers. I also release trauma stored as tension in my muscles and joints. This process not only offers an energetic study of body and movement, but also generates ways of imprinting and memorializing my body in ephemeral moments. Each moment and gesture is irretrievable, marked in the flour, photographed, and then washed away.
Day 1
Flour
Think: Draw
Body, flour, dance.
5’ x 8’
Fall 2015
Flour
Think: Draw
Body, flour, dance.
5’ x 8’
Fall 2015
