SUCCESSION OF REMEMBERED SYMMETRIES: OH THE TUNES I'VE DANCED TO 1

mixed media painting on found canvas (acrylic paint, ink and mediums, tissue paper, glass beads and oil pastel); 2024

w 60 x h 60 x d 4cm; unframed

Recalling life memories, of before and after and during. Internal struggles for recognition of self, of otherness. Oh the tunes I've danced to... the beats and rhythms dancing through life AND... those inner tunes, played on repeat, dictating how to act, how to be, what's acceptable and not! Toeing the line, fitting in, and then finding yourself and your own rhythms and beats and irregularities, making your own music and dancing on...

SUCCESSION OF REMEMBERED SYMMETRIES series, exploring gesture and movement as a form of embodied recall and fabrication. I am interested in how the body holds rhythm as emotional patterning and my making becomes a site where  gesture colour, materials and memory converge, letting my body make the shapes. #sensuouspractice