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An ember held beneath the dark.
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Malena · Forms of Presence
I Was Here
A hand. A footprint. The right to be here.
Handprints and a footprint hold their place in a dark field. The gesture is direct: a body was here. The space between the marks invites a quieter question about how much room we allow ourselves to take.
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Materials
Acrylic on canvas
The full story
Presence / Courage / Belonging
Red handprints and a single footprint remain against a deep, dark field. Elongated bodily forms hold the space between them. This artifact preserves the legend of a presence fully claimed: the body arrives, leaves its mark and allows itself to occupy the world at its own scale.
Proposed accompaniment
Gesture Score
The Space You Take
A brief written sequence of gestures: stand, mark your place, name a choice. Conceived as a private practice of presence, the score gives a simple physical form to the permission to be here.
Conceived as a separate companion to the painting. Its form and inclusion are to be agreed individually.
A closer look
A study of the surface
A slow passage across the real details of this painting, composed from its photographs.
Music credits
Erik Satie · Gymnopédie No. 1
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) · CC BY 4.0
Excerpt with fades and adjusted volume.
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