It has been a long time since I’ve last made a post. The last two years have been difficult, as I was in a primary and secondary caregiving role for two older relatives faced with complex and critical illnesses. I will elaborate on this more in future. But in the meantime, I’ve been experimenting with intuitive interspecies communication and using collage as a medium of expression. Collage has always been a part of my artistic practice, a blurring of the boundaries between many disparate realities to create “the spark of poetry that leaps across the gap as these two realities are brought together” (Berger). I’ve enjoyed this analogue method of communicating thoughts through the materials.

Intuitive interspecies communication

Test 1: Intuitive interspecies communication techniques, mixed paper on watercolour paper, 7″ x 5″, 2023

Testing Intuitive interspecies communication techniques, mixed paper on watercolour paper (after Michael Morris), 5" x 7", 2023

Test 2: Intuitive interspecies communication techniques, mixed paper on watercolour paper (after Michael Morris), 5″ x 7″, 2023

Test 3: Intuitive interspecies communication techniques, mixed paper on watercolour paper ), 10″ x 11″, 2023

Test 4: Intuitive interspecies communication techniques, mixed paper on watercolour paper ), 8″ x 9″, 2023

Test 5: Intuitive interspecies communication techniques, mixed paper on watercolour paper ), 9″ x 12″, 2023

Test 6: Intuitive interspecies communication techniques, mixed paper on watercolour paper ), 5″ x 7″, 2023

Spirit Guides 

Spirit Guide 1, mixed paper on water-colour paper and modge podge, 6″ x 8″, 2023

Spirit Guides 2, mixed paper on water-colour paper and modge podge, 5″ x 7″, 2023

 

Spirit Guide 3, mixed paper on water-colour paper and modge podge, 5″ x 7″, 2023

 

Bibliography

Berger, Barbara. “Collage, Frottage, Grattage….” Moderna Museet,

www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/maxernst/collage-frottage-grattage.

Accessed 7 May 2020.