PERDURANCE 7: EVERY PART OF ME NOW HERE

mixed media painting on canvas (oil and acrylic paint, re-used materials - mirrored glass, yarn and sequins) 2023

w 100 x h 70 x d 4cm; framed w 105 x h 75 x d 5cm

Embodied energy in perpetual exchange; dancing, cartwheels, shaking my body, vibrant and exuberant. Every part of me now here. Temporal parts made visible; swirling and shifting eddies, memories of elemental movements; singularities becoming multiplicities.  A collaboration between me and the materials; we danced and moved bold colours and strokes and marks; we added some embellishments, made spaces and hid things from each other, and finally after 5 years we were satiated and resplendent; our melding of energies expressed vibrantly and fully.

PERDURANCE series: Exploration of the concept of perdurance, where individuals are composed of temporal parts that are constantly changing dependant on time and the relationships with others/environment. Durational works utilising sensuous, tactile media in response to corporeal encounters running/walking/dwelling and documenting as a sensing being, they are extensions of the rhythms of the body. The repetitive acts of chaining and knotting are a meditative process connecting past, present and future in iterative loops. In perdurance my form, my thoughts, my spirit is not fixed: Mmiri Mmiri / I am fluid.

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