DANCING WATERCOLOURS // Witnessing the Dance // 2023
SOMATIC PAINTINGS // sensing the body // 2022
Spherical Heart, after Bari Kim, Exploring the Heart, BMC based workshop for CI50 Thailand Contact Improvisation Festival 2022
“In the womb, we held our hearts in the little buds that would later become our hands” after Bari Kim
After Hydrospheres: Ocean Dance Retreat, Koh Tao, Thailand, with Geraldine Acevedo Espana, Reimar Wen Shen
After Dolores Dewhurst Marks, Being Nature: Stone and Water, all night meditative process. Silence fire and river, Koh Phangan, Thailand
(in reference to this, and all the paintings below)
A note about my SOMATIC PAINTINGS
These paintings arise not from imagination, but rather as translations of lived physical experiences. The material arises through focused practices like contact improvisation, ocean dance and nature immersion. The process of painting allows impressions experienced through body-sensation to emerge in visual format.
While I ‘write down’ these visual echoes of experiences, they are co-creations. I feel the collaboration of all the bodies which entered states of tuning and sensitivity to create these shared moments. Our fairy-magic, simple-reality of collective presence, authentic interactions and witnessing.
Thank you to all the human bodies!
Thank you to the beyond-human bodies: stone, river, ocean, forest