Paresthesia Series

Large scale cyanotype on 100%cotton
Performative body prints
Various dimensions
2024-ongoing

In recent years I have begun to work with female characters as shadows, or as a kind of guide who can open gates in the veil between the known and the unknown world, where the culturally informed gaze fails in its anthropocentric projection of nature. A way of knowing through direct experience, but also of forgetting what I know by becoming a different subjectivity. It took me quite a while to recognize this character, who today I see as a shadow of myself who hides behind me and knows some things that I did not find out yet. It has no face and often its body is neutral, abandoning the signs of my female body. Her name is Paresthesia, after the scientific name for the numbing sensation I feel every time I spend an hour still in the sun’s rays to make a cyanotype.

More about this character and its relation to previous artworks in: New East Magazine interview, in dialogue with curator Sandra Teige.

While making one of the prints, I have recorded myself talking, and later transcribed and heavily edited those scattered thoughts into a text of its own, titled Shadow be still. Thoughts melting in the sun.