Trilogy
Mixed media on wood, 90x90cm
Sacral, Throat, Crown
The individual works in the trilogy Pleasures were created side by side over a period of several months. Initially the artist placed the wooden canvases on the floor to simulate a larger surface on which to explore different materials and methods. Later she would work on them individually while keeping the body of work visually and contextually in mind and eye. Each work was themed as an expression of a specific body part of the artist. In this way she allowed her physical and energetic body to speak through her hands and portray its current state. As a way to initiate the process the artist would connect to the body parts that felt most alive and wrote an intention onto each canvas.
Sacral speaks of the root, of grounding, connecting to the earth, and remaining stable and strong in any given moment. It is the representation of how the artists deep, earthy root not only felt but also developed and showed itself to her and the world during that time. Throat expresses the raw, abstract sounds alive in us when we unmask our voices. The rough yet reflective texture of the wax mirrors how we socialise our loud organs and hide behind how we think we should speak. Allowing ourselves to show up for our sounds, words and beliefs is what the process of becoming Throat revealed to the artist. Crown as expressed in this work connects the worlds of the sky and the mind, the tangible and intangible, the interlaced realities of what it feels like to be human in a world that is unknowable. It is the humbling realisation that while we try to make sense of life it is but a game our minds our playing to believe that one can.
In the end it is about finding pleasure in the Unknown, in the human experiences we have, especially when life offers us something else then we were expecting.
The works were completed as in the order shown below.
