THE PRIMAL FRISSON OF SENSES
Sometimes I catch a scent and my body remembers before my mind does. The air seems to shift; my body shivers and trickles, and I’m pulled into a feeling I can’t quite name. These moments reveal how memory lives inside us; not as clear images, but as sensations that move through the body.
To explore one’s experience is to explore the intimate relationships between the body, memory, and sensory experience. The way we react is primal to everything we are and to those who came before us. It considers how scent, sound, and environment act as catalysts that awaken the body’s internal language – a language that connects us to our memories and roots. Memory is constantly felt rather than seen, leading this body of work to challenge what it means to feel. Our bodies release chemicals like dopamine and endorphins when we experience joy, familiarity, or excitement – linking us to all we know, our internal archive.
This work abstracts the natural world through inversion and ambiguous textures, mirroring the fragmented, elusive quality of recollection. The images are created through presence and response; moments of stillness and allowing to embrace natures perks. Yet creating intentionally, seeking unexplainable textures helped make visual choices that echo sound, scent, and touch – translating sensory reactions into image.
With scent, it lingers and leaves a trace of what once was. Like a familiar song, that brings out movement in your body. Even new memories that spark new chemical pathways in the brain feel as bright and as sharp as blue. It is all primal.
