My punctuation is my breath 2020
Art on Paper
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
21 September-17 November 2019
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Paul Guest Prize
Bendigo Art Gallery
17 October-7 February 2021
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Clarice Lispector has been described as a writer who “fills the time with thoughts of death and God and hell and nothingness and language and murder”.
Lispector described herself as an anti-writer, and approached literature as process, saying that writing is only ever arduous searching. Her novels question modes of power and gender, marked by an intense focus on interior emotional states.
My punctuation is my breath approaches Lispector’s mystical legacy through drawing. Comprised of 12 parts the work sequentially moves from something to nothing. The image of the writer at her typewriter is sequentially enveloped by her own breath, contradictorily erasing the drawing at the same time.
My punctuation is my breath 2019
graphite on paper
12 parts, 21 x 26 cm each