Acrylic on paper

14 x 11 inches

2020

Unframed original

Framing available; please contact for information and pricing.

ABOUT THE BLOOD OATH SERIES
THE BLOOD OATH SERIES is a collection of white paintings on white paper that explores self acceptance and healthy sympathetic fight. They hold bareness, sameness, and loss alongside powerful, unexpected complexity. From a distance the world of THE BLOOD OATH SERIES paintings is imperceptible or even invisible, but don’t be fooled. This work requires intimacy. The viewer must come physically and sensorily close for the paintings to fully reveal themselves and their layers of nuance and detail.

The paintings are a declaration
A promise
A pact.
They are an offering.
For today.
For tomorrow.

Learn more about the creation process here.

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.