Depicting occurrences of when one is physically present compared to its absence and what happens when traces of identity are visible, removed, fragmented, or left behind is key to my art practice. Incorporating anonymous and gestural anti-portraits along with distortions of what we consider the norm of the human anatomical structure. Nebulous figurative forms testing body’s boundaries through representations of human minimality and are anonymous on what or whom they represent, yet there universally representative. Symbolising strength and virility, human properties are concentrated in his or her hair. According to myths, it is an external soul from our head, hair grown on the body meant irrational powers, yet dishevelled hair signalled bereavement. Hair is the second strongest natural material, yet its meaning changes once its cut, shed, or removed. Once its discarded, repulsion occurs. A strand represents a fragile state. Used as an external sculptural element curling and lying on top of the page, it reacts to its surroundings, or its immersed through thin layers of vellum. With diffused lights, tones of my representational flesh appear through the paper. Using different thicknesses of the vellum, effects vary with these intertwined nebulous figures. Adding hundreds of thin strands blur and consume the compositions till parts of the body are recognisable, the hair itself is fragile heightening the figure’s

fragile state as it is hidden among itself.

 

Nebulous Corium (vellum series) consists of 5 artworks. These are all graphite pencil drawings and human hair on layers of vellum paper, each measuring 70cm x 50cm.