Acrylic on paper

48 x 36 inches

2020

Unframed original

Framing available; please contact for information and pricing.

ABOUT ROLL
ROLL explores and celebrates the power of movement, the body, and the feminine. It examines:

the typography of the human form
woman as Creator
the body in motion

ROLL was created using my body as the paintbrush. During creation I sensed personal empowerment, self-possession, instinct, and the Divine Feminine within myself and the world. Mainly, I dropped into my body and let it move across the paper. 

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.