Work - Donna Bottomley

The Convergence series

When movement, gaze and sound converge there is a feeling that happens in the body. It is sensory, and it is pre-cognitive. My work is focused on this feeling, and how it can connect us to something outside of ourselves and make us feel expanded.

Lifted

Morning Drive

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The Opening Series (Work in progress)

Supported by Arts Council Wales.

FEEL

Where we look affects how we feel.
This is an experiment in working with the movement of visual attention and how it feels to orient to different directions. I am using the flute to represent gaze direction, and voice as the sensor of the space. This piece investigates the relationship between gaze, sound and the sensing of space by the body. How it feels to orient to different directions.

I plan to post the rough sketches of each section so you can hear it as it is being made.

FEEL – Part One: Down

Part one of FEEL is about how it feels to look down. There’s not enough space but there is too much complexity, too much clutter. Niggly little noises are in the way and I feel restricted.

Down= defensive submission & contraction. The sound is mono, minimal reverb. A droning monologue with nonsense content that cannot travel anywhere. Underneath a voice that is trying to travel.