‘Rupture at the ephemeral seam (still life)’, 2024

Acrylic paint, cotton canvas, water, oil stick, thread, flowers, memory, grief, generosity, turmoil, blood of pricked fingers, sunlight, florescent light, star and moon, transferenceviagesture, gesture, breathe, folding, squeezing, shed skin, body imprints, footprints, weight of the body, agony/ecstasy, wooden structure, steel rope, body as site, ripping seams, lost flowers, fallen petals, incense, souvenirs, stories, ruptures, collapsing of time and space, the cultural organisation of the material world, black coffee, studio chats, tethering through possessions, collecting shells, various notebooks, questioning, deliberating, explaining, analysing, grains of sand, microcosms, letting go, the speed of the body, the speed of the hand, body as apparatus, the ripping of flesh, growing of bone, acts of kindness, the traces of existence through gesture and collection, body as site, carcass tethered. 

1.75m x 3.2m x 15cm