70 x 125 cm
hand-stichted appliqué (cotton)
Almost a word (gasp), 2025
70 x 125 cm
hand-stichted appliqué (cotton)
In the works I developed for Novel Tongues, I examine the bodily, physical aspects of language. They approach voices, mouths, lips, and tongues as carriers of words and language.
The two works of the diptych Almost a word, that were part of the exhibition, focus on the ‘airy’ elements of language: the in- and outward breaths we call gasps or sighs, which can definitely serve a communicative function, but aren’t words themselves.