Acrylic on paper

48 x 36 inches

2020

Unframed original

Framing available; please contact for information and pricing.

ABOUT FETAL / VERTEBRAE
FETAL / VERTEBRAE is an exploration of anatomical and metaphysical layers of support and was created using my body as the paintbrush. During the creation process, I laid onto the paper and stamped each layer while embodying the bones, selves, beings, elements that hold and carry us at every moment. 

Evoking dinosaur bones, human vertebrae, the fetal curl, a Rorschach test, FETAL / VERTEBRAE visualizes support from child, to self, to wholeness, to creation. 

ABOUT BODY PAINTINGS
Based in a practice of self expression through physicality, Emily creates her BODY PAINTINGS by using her limbs, skin, and human form as the paint brushes on her canvas. She paints her body and then transfers the paint from her skin to the paper through improvised movement and embodied emotion and sensation. The practice of creation itself is a meditation, a dance, a releasing, a rewilding, a birthing, and whether it is witnessed or performed in solitude, it is an artistic act unto itself. The BODY PAINTINGS explore the intersection of embodiment and expression and allow what is internal to separate from the artist, to take an external form that can be seen, touched, cherished, or discarded.

Each of these works contains imprints and traces of the artist's body and the movement that made the piece: texture of skin, smoothness from the sliding weight of bones, peaks where a thigh left the paper, traces that glimpse into the acts of creation and the human that made them.