Book of Days. A year-long Zoom collaboration throughout 2023 with performance artist Alex, aka Xelalexelaaa, in continuous movement (but only to Deftones). Movement and drawing, languages older than words. Resonance. No timings. Lyrics. Nothing was erased, only absorbed.
Exhibited at The Foundry Arts Space, August 2024, this installation emphasised the model as a living person rather than a subject.
Seven panels of watercolour paper carry charcoal and pastel lines of alternate choices. Fixed with casein and mounted on custom Italian poplar cradled boards, each measuring 20 × 100 cm, the work can be viewed without glass, allowing an unmediated encounter with the surface.
The unusual mural format was inspired by the 2022–23 Murray River flood event unfolding in the physical environment around me during the first session, allowing a human landscape of unspoken things to emerge.
Words are just the margins. Movement is the confession.
