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Emptied Gestures: Physical Movement Translated into Symmetrical Charcoal Drawings by Heather Hansen

After coming across a website called Colossal which shows different artwork from a variety of artists across the world I discovered an artist called Heather Hansen, who uses her movements to create Symmetrical drawings. When watching the video I found this process quite relaxing as it reminds me of something you would see in a yoga class. Plus I also liked how the whole process is quite random in the sense that she doesn't follow any particular pattern when sees drawing she just follows her movements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 You can check out the Colossal website by following this link:

 

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/

 

And also check out Heathers website:

 

http://heatherhansen.net/

 

If you wanted to watch a video of how Heather creates her work click on the link below:

 

http://vimeo.com/75185969