I know I want to make a wavy shape with porcelain, just like this shape I created in my sketchbook using acrylics, newspaper and masking tape… I want to show fluidity, just how our thoughts in our brain link together, how the movements we make, our autonomy- is guided by a network of nerves. This is the ‘positive’.
So what’s the negative? The tension which disturbs the flow, a ball of mess, hands clenching, tightness… These are my visualisations of tension.
Mum made an interesting point to me, she said how currently, Dad’s MRI scan shows where the abscess used to be now looks like “a watermark on material” so I wanted to explore this visually in my sketchbook, using brusho.
The shape I want to create resembles water being swept to the side of a your car front window during heavy rainfall. It gets pushed, then the windscreen wipers pull the water back towards the centre. All in perfect synchronicity. as the shapes captured of the brain by MRI scans remind me of the sycnhonocitty of water: the globular drops of rain and especially rainfall on windscreens!!!
Rain on the windscreen
Georgie Phillips 