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Performative Relics. Autumn 2019-Summer 2023. Upstate NY - NYC, USA.

Relics of tool and deed. A drawing beyond a drawing. For the series of moments that provoked the spill of emotions that define the marks, the frayed, barely legible words are the work - the play.

The Sumi ink marks on the scroll were made within a single 10 minute sit of breath to hand movement on the 5th floor of the Shipibo Conibo Center post parting ways with the Zen master that originally gifted the hair branch brush used to bleed in black. The session endured such visceral strokes of freedom and release that the floss loosened its ties. The hair nearly fell off. To prevent further balding the hair was secured with brown thread over the original pink embroidery floss.

Some strands were lost to the wooden floors. Red ink stained their world too. Love traced. Red words were written under the light of a Virgo full moon by the Harlem River. Winds, tides, red ink running out, emotional waterfalls in the company of a healer mirror. A train ride from the Empire State where parasitic latern fly wings were collected near Juilliard bound to be sewn under candlelight in the Windy City. Blown out.

Materials: Scroll sumi ink. lantern fly wings. red ink pen. thread on rice paper scroll. Brush tree branch. embroidery floss. thread. hair - salvaged from Haircut Piece Part II + made in collaboration with Jody Hojin Kimmel Sensei

8 in x 123 in. NY NY, USA. 2023

1 in x 13 in. Mt. Tremper NY, USA. 2019.