Georgia Arnold
Dizziness & Drawing Breath
This project explores the messy potential of autobiography, how an art practice may be used as a tool for authentic action, and what an authentic art practice might be.
I worked in the field of expanded drawing to generate a body of work that exists as a cosmos of self-referential imagery and processes. The works reflect on how they have been made through incorporating imagery of thought patterns, diagrams, food I have consumed in the studio that day, or myself making the work within the work. As they are made and moved around my studio, they accumulate physical remnants like leftover ink or tape or pieces of metal and marks that evidence interactions, alterations, and mechanisms of display.
A key way the self is represented in this body of work includes the way we contend with structures, both societal and self-imposed. Some works act as a container to hold tiled compositions, while another frame is created specifically to fit around a cluster of images. Methods of display advocate for, or deny rearrangement with varying tensions of fixture and freedom, implicating the room and context of an exhibition as a container in itself. These works wrestle with intuitive and external structures while researching the implications of the self as a subject, the self within systems, and systems within the self.
