Encephalic Cleansing by Needle

 

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12 September 2024

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15 September 2024

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24 September 2024

Encephalic Cleansing is the name I give to my spontaneous works originally produced using gouache paint on watercolour paper. 

This cathartic pursuit has expanded into a form of embroidery using unbleached calico and black thread. 

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28 September 2024

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3 October 2024

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10 October 2024

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13 October 2024

At this point I began alternating between leading with my right and left hand to avoid muscle fatigue in my hand and arm. Hours can go by unnoticed while I'm absorbed in the sewing. I'm right-handed naturally but I try and get the left hand to join in these activities as much as possible. 

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31 October 2024

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3 November 2024

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9 November 2024

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10 November 2024

Each piece is 38 x 38 cm

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My Wish

 

Music written, performed, produced & mixed by Gaynor Perry

Mastered by Cass Irvine

Painting & animation by Gaynor Perry

We can swiftly be swallowed up in this digital labyrinth, losing touch with the subtle impulses and rhythms of our being. Noise from the outside world can baffle the senses causing us to become estranged from ourselves.

The song came first from the seed of a dream, and then a painting called A Soothsayer Lately.  I researched different ways to animate. It can get really complicated, so I settled on the simple method I used in my previous animation Agatha’s Secret. Creating frames in photoshop and importing them into iMovie.

I hardly know myself

What is a name but a ghostly refrain

I live in a conch shell

A giant conch shell

Suspended between the I and the me

We love, we grieve umpteen impermanent desires

Cast away this sorry scheme of things entire

We float, we trawl

enthralled by transient desires

We want, we crave

enslaved by primal powers

We come undone

hard won and instantly devoured

My wish unseen adrift

My wish, my wish adrift

Hello, hello, hello shadow

La, la, la, la

We love, we grieve

We love

My wish, my wish adrift

Hello, hello, hello shadow

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