STORIES OF FALLING OBJECTS

Is a thread of research around traces of the movements created by balancing an object while holding a pen (or charcoal, ink or any other means to leave a trace) to a canvas on the floor. Over the past two years I dove deep into object balancing and that research has led me to discover this technique. Until now the work has mostly focused on balancing wooden sticks, but during my next steps I will investigate balancing different objects that create different types of movement traces such as very light objects such as feathers and very heavy objects like steel or lead poles.

Balancing an object, or balancing oneself, is an act of movement. There will never be a point of stillness simply because we are are organic beings and so long as we draw air into our lungs, and our heart still beats, we cannot be still. Balancing two inanimate objects on top of each other such as stones may achieve stillness, but we (in all its poetic and tragic implications) simply cannot.

However, to embrace this is to allow these traces to simply happen without trying to impose a certain form, shape or meaning upon them. The object is in a constant state of falling, and I am in a constant state of catching it. While I can give direction to the falling object the movement remains chaotic, erratic and beautifully disobedient.