”Ma”is breathing : Dialogue between Materials-Before Names, There Is Touch
When different materials are placed on the same table, they begin to speak through “touch” before they are given names.
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The softness of a feather; the hardness and repetition of a pinecone; the thinness of an insect’s wing; the dampness of a fish; the smoothness of a vessel. Surfaces that catch the light quietly come forward, and shadows take on the weight of each object. Rather than gathering them into a single story, I searched — in distance and arrangement — for the moment when materials illuminate one another.
Dialogue happens not through words, but through density, contour, reflection, and the way surfaces absorb light. Beside something hard, something soft appears softer; beside something thin, something thick feels heavier.
This drawing is a record of the small exchanges materials make. To look is close to touching, and to draw is to line those differences up again on the surface of the page.
