Gesture series, 2013

'SOME PEOPLE DON'T MOVE MUCH AT ALL. MY GRANNY WOULD CALL THAT GOOD MANNERS. I CALL IT STRANGE. SOME PEOPLE CANNOT STAY STILL. THEY POINT, WAVE, SWEEP, CURLING THEIR FINGERS AND UNCURLING THEM, DRAWING LINES AND CIRCLES AND SPIRALS IN THE AIR. SOME POEPLE ARE AGITATED, THEIR MOVEMENTS FRANTIC. THE GESTURES THEY MAKE CAUSE THIER ENTIRE BODY TO SHUDDER - THEIR SHOULDERS, KNEE JOINTS, SPINES QUIVERING. I FIND MYSELF DISTRACTED BY THE MOVEMENTS THEY MAKE, AND FORGET TO LISTEN TO WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. THEY, HOWEVER, ARE SO ABSORBED IN THEIR OWN WORDS THAT THEY DO NOT NOTICE THEIR HANDS COMING TO LIFE. SOME PEOPLE ARE SLOWER AND MORE LANGUID. THEY ARE IN NO RUSH TO EXPLAIN THEMSELVES. SOMETIMES THEIR HANDS ARE LIKE SMOKE, FURLING AND UNFURLING, FIVE-FINGERED PLUMES. SOMETIMES THEIR HANDS ARE FLATTENED, PRESSED AGAINST AN INVISIBLE SURFACE, MARKING BARRIERS IN THE AIR. SOMETIMES THEY FLUTTER, LIKE INSECTS OR MOTHS, DARTING TENTATIVELY FROM POINT TO POINT.' 
Text piece, 2013.


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'Cake and Gesticulation'

'Conversation with Paint'

'Gesture and Trace'