Eyes shift focus, soften, close, scan, blur, point, smile, see, listen.
gesturing like a limb.
Spinal axis and back surfaces shaping figuring sculpting – although shape never quite settling, this figure caught in a push and pull. Something drops lower, is more behind, pushed slightly more off to the side or shifts to at another angle to something else.
And behind an invisible void that the limbs gesticulate, flail, grasp within. A figure twisting around the spine and turning back towards the blind spot behind. An interesting game.
and maybe it’s not dark behind, but full of colour and light. I can feel the air tickle the hairs on the back of my neck.
on my hands and knees, I draw very quickly on a sheet of paper the sense of the shape of surface areas that fleetingly form in my sensory imagination. drawing a sense of my back – a fleeting capture.
I rub compressed charcoal over the ‘figure’ and a surface of dust covers and lies on top of the lines, that is, behind my back.
