Body Language

This durational series explores a translation from felt sense to colour and form, with as much spontaneity and freedom as possible — before my discursive mind takes over. The exercise is to disrupt default or cliché associations with colour and form as I practice interoception — tuning in, turning inward, to pay close attention to the sensations of particular moment. I follow impulse from those sensations toward colour and gesture. It is an attempt to get beneath a usual language of words, and into a visual “sense-language” instead, to express being in this body in a specific moment in time.

The selected watercolours were painted on paper between July and September of 2020, as part of this durational series which yielded 70 paintings in as many days.