Rose Hip - Embodied Drawing Series
Rose Hip - Embodied Drawing Series
Ink on Bristol board
297h x 210w mm
Unframed
EMBODIED DRAWINGS
Line drawing Series
‘That’s the way to see the world, in our own bodies,” poet, Buddhist and forester Gary Snyder,
Embodied drawings were developed during residency 2022 funded residency at Inshriach. Supported by the The Bothy project, in partnership with the Cairngorms National Park. Naomi’s focus of the residency was to draw what she felt being in the landscape, rather than what she was seeing. To experience landscape in a physical way through the body and capture peace and calm through drawings made.
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd emphasised the importance of touch in experiencing place.
The body is not negligible,” Shepherd wrote, “but paramount”. “The hands have an infinity of pleasure in them. The feel of things, textures, surfaces, rough things like cones and bark, smooth things like stalks and feathers and pebbles rounded by water, the teasing of gossamers . . . the scratchiness of lichen, the warmth of the sun, the sting of hail, the blunt blow of tumbling water, the flow of wind - nothing that I can touch or that touches me but has its own identity for the hand as much as for the eye.’
The process of making these delicate drawings has involved turning and tuning into the feeling of being part of the natural world and not separate from it. The lines and marks are a physical response to the senses and the drawings give physical from to the feeling of experiencing quietude.