CATHARSIS:01 documents the manipulation of clay as a metaphorical body. The clay is guided in response to physical pain: when I experience heaviness the clay is pushed from beneath, teared in response to sharpness, rolled upon itself when I feel a build up of pressure...As I manipulate the clay in response to my pain the viewer sees only my hand. Whilst the pain is in my legs, it is my hands that externalise it; it is also my hands, or rather my constant use of just one, that alludes to disability as pain itself is communicated through direct physicality of body and material.
© Charlotte Morgan 2018