Encephalic Cleansing by Needle

 

#1
12 September 2024

#2
15 September 2024

#3
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. 

#4
28 September 2024

#5
3 October 2024

#6
10 October 2024

#7
13 October 2024

At this point, I began alternating between leading with my right and left hand to reduce muscle fatigue in my hand and arm. Hours often pass unnoticed while I’m fully absorbed in sewing. Naturally right-handed, I make an effort to involve my left hand in these activities as much as possible.

#8
31 October 2024

#9
3 November 2024

#10
9 November 2024

#11
10 November 2024

#12
24 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 quickly be swallowed up by this digital labyrinth, losing touch with the subtle impulses and rhythms of our being. The noise of the outside world can overwhelm the senses, causing us to feel estranged from ourselves.

In My Wish, we follow Agatha and her shadow self as they skip through a surreal landscape, singing their song.

The song first emerged from the seed of a dream, which was followed by a painting titled A Soothsayer Lately. I researched various animation techniques, but since it can get quite complicated, I decided to settle on the simple method I had used in my previous animation, Agatha’s Secret. This involved 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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