Same Song — Annabelle

Similar lips, 2024
enamelled steel
35 x 45 cm

Different tongue, 2024
enamelled steel
35 x 45 cm

Identical voices, 2024
enamelled steel
35 x 45 cm

In a way, language is always looking for a ‘body’: in the literal sense: in the form of a mouth that speaks the words, or in the figurative sense: a book or page as a carrier or ‘body’ of words. This is how I approach the works I make as well: they are a way to give shape to language, words, and stories.

This series of enamels examines the bodily, physical aspects of language. It approaches voices, mouths, lips, and tongues as carriers of words and language as an embodied experience. The circular shapes function as abstracted images of open mouths, the words passing through them as they’re being spoken.

The sentences in the work play with the idea of the same set of words taking on different shapes because of how and by whom they’re being said: how the same set of written words will take on different shapes and meanings due to the mouth that speaks them.