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THE WORD BECOMES FLESH
NORTHERN CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART//2019

The Word Becomes Flesh (2018) extends my ongoing exploration of what I term text/flesh entanglements. Through projection, wax, audio, and surface, text and body are staged as mutually constitutive—each formed through the other in the act of encounter.

The work draws on the theological formulation of the word becoming flesh, but reconfigures it as a cyclical process. This is performed through a series of projected, multiplied figures whose movements take on a liturgical and mythic quality, as though the viewer has entered a speculative space of ritual or worship.

Here, inscription does not precede the body, nor follow it, but emerges through movement, surface, and repetition. My practice prays as text becomes flesh and flesh becomes text.

I acknowledge The Larrakia People who are the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of this land and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty of Country was never ceded.