When I Realized What She Was Creating, I Was Blown Away

When I Realized What She Was Creating, I Was Blown Away 1 Meet Artist, Heather Hansen She's a unique artist based in New Orleans, and she uses her body to dance and draw on canvas creating large scale artworks. 2 How It's Done Her stunning symmetrical canvases of art are done while performing a kind of dance and holding a piece of charcoal in each hand to create designs. 3 The Performance Watching her do the drawings are as incredible and an important element of the artwork. 4 Work: 'Harmonic' For the work title 'Harmonic', she explains she is exploring the "spherical harmonic function through kinetic drawing, dance, and sound". Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect. 5 A 'Body Compass' Hansen uses her body like a drawing compass tool to create perfect circles and geometric shapes. 6 The 'Sound' Element She also collaborates with music artists to create original scores for her live performances. The music in the series, 'Emptied Gestures' was made by musician Jesse Clasen. 7 The 'Vitruvian Man' Looking at her canvases one can't help but think of, Leonardo da Vinci's 'Vitruvian Man', where his drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions. 8 Gestural Abstraction Hansen's art can also be called "Action painting" or "gestural abstraction", in that through her "dance" there's a spontaneousness, "emotional" aspect to her drawings onto the canvas, rather than it being carefully applied. 9 Her Performance Videos There are videos of Hansen's artworks and performances that can be view on her website: heatherhansen.net 10 A View From Above Hansen's work stand well on their own without her "dance" and sound performance, but experiencing her work in all aspects adds more to the meaning of each drawing. Also amazing are her performance of temporal drawings on wet sand and beaches. ..

3 The Performance

Murtaza Rangwala

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