Sonata for Psyche Tattooing
Allegro
Image projected at a moderate scale on the first large sheet of paper . A drawn theme, the ‘psyche tattoo’, will be established in this movement. Time: 3 to 5 minutes.
Adagio
Projected image will fill the second sheet of paper. The drawn theme, worked out in the prior movement will be further developed in this movement. Time: 7-10 minutes.
Allegretto
Drawn theme will be quickly resolved on the third large sheet of paper; projected image size reduced to a miniature scale. Time: less than 3 minutes.
This performative drawing is composed in the most common form of the Sonata. Three movements, Allegro-Adagio-Allegro, structure the establishment, development and resolution of a drawn theme on a variously scaled projected image from the self portrait Twinning.
Twinning, a series of photos of my body, doubled, reflected, and abstracted in a mirror, is a self portrait developed in Spring 2015. These photos have become the base from which I explore issues of personal identity in drawing, painting, and subsequent photo-based self portraits. Sonata for Psyche Tattooing reconfigures and projects a memory, a part of self which was present and yet was never really there with the additional element of mark making. Comprised of the text of who I am, these are the marks tattooed on my psyche. The image of the body fades when the projection stops; the psyche tattooing remains.