saba askari
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slumber (5 hours)
charcoal, graphite (32 x 65'')
slumber (7 hours)
charcoal, graphite (30 x 66'')
In slumber series (2017 - ongoing), I record my body’s unconscious movements during uninterrupted periods of sleep. I prepare for this private performance by attaching charcoal to the inside and outside of my arms, legs, and onto my joints and lay down on a sheet of paper on the floor. Unconscious mark making, smudging, and wiping materializes sleep into an image that captures pressure, motion, space, and time.
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I have little control over the image I wake up to, however my complete control over the parameters of its creation allow me to harness entropy and make it my own.
slumber (3 hours)
charcoal, graphite (28.5 x 66'')
A specific night's sleep does not dissipate into a distant void of regularity, but instead validates patterns of my own existence. Sleep is transformed from biological necessity into a method of production.
nap (20 minutes, forehead)
charcoal (11 x 8.5'')
eisegesis II
ink, marker, graphite (36 x 48'')
Series of drawings involving ink-soaked cantaloupe rolled on paper. Thin ink lines are then added by hand in a futile effort to regain control over image / composition.
eisegesis I
ink, graphite (72 x 48'')
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paper cut free association
artist's blood, ballpoint pen (10 x 8'')