Drawings
Material
Chalk, charcoal, breath, masking tape, paper
Information
The Death Drawings - Someone I love has stopped breathing, another close-one will imminently cease to draw. Breathing is involuntary and can persist longer than the will to live. Temporal matter has already begun to realign as bodies devour themselves on the way to the transformative death event. Bodies shed throughout their lives and in cessation gradually return to universal carbon and dust. Unseen, unspoken, undone – they enter our lungs with the oxygen that feeds our hearts and drives our organs. Filtering through our flesh, the no-longer-to-be-seen abide with us as micro-materiality and as potential.
Dedicated to Cousin Ann
Exhibited
Lanchester Gallery, Coventry, UK (2014) as part of Drawology - One Year On curated by Deborah Harty.
Related publication The Death Drawings https://issuu.com/deborahharty/docs/death_drawings
Photo credits: Cristiana Ilie