EMBEDDED IN THE FLESH OF THE WORLD 2

mixed media painting on linen (acrylic paint, oil marker, re-used materials - velvet, mirrored glass, plastic and swarf) 2018

w 195 x h 114 x d 3 cm; framed w 206 x h 125 x d 4cm; orientation - landscape

Embedded in the flesh of the world / Rapt, wrapped in the elasticity of libidinal skin / Your skin is warm and glowing, inviting me to touch / I can only feel you because I am different to you / I can’t feel what you feel / I take pleasure in the not quite meeting of our skin / Maelstrom of thoughts flocking like birds / Swooping and swerving, becoming new meanderings... 

Embedded In The Flesh Of The World series explores memory embodied; reactivating gestures, marks, punctuations, recalling encounters with/in the world. I remembered walking with the wind howling around me, debris/leaves swirling; I remembered running across different terrain, sometimes falling, slipping, being sucked into the mud; I remembered hiding in the grass, swimming in bodies of water; I remembered touching, feeling, sensing, almost belonging. The physicality of my making as sensuous as the materials I use, I am embedded in these forms.  #sensuouspractice