The Barrel Store, Corbans Estate Arts Centre, February 2022

This project explores the movement of water and matter across the surface of paper, silk, concrete, and organic material in response to differing concentrations of solutes. They form altered visual relationships and changing axes. The charcoal paintings are vertical, cartographic, observed from afar, and detached - while other surrounding work is experienced as ‘embodied’. Down the side of a water tank in the centre of the room, fabric is swathed vertically from the rafters. The fabric has been drawn through liquid and charcoal. By using soft silk for the charcoal drawings, these float in a fluid motion. Attached to the wall is a series of drawings on paper, printed from the surface of the water and stamped at intervals with the fading remains. Charcoal paint covers horizontal paper where dripping water floods the surface. The surfaces shift and the materials are active. Water is an actant in our world.

“The flow and flush of waters sustain our own bodies, but also connect them to other bodies, to other worlds beyond our human selves.”’ Astrida Neimanis - Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. (p.2)