Francesca Mollett

Liquid Ground

Liquid Ground, Video, 2 min 42 seconds

Amber translucent latex is painted with iridescent and fluorescent pigments to amplify colour of reflections in the water and complicate distinctions between figure and ground; register a surface collapsing the virtual and real. Skin becomes water, latex becomes pond and the wind’s movement of tadpoles becomes the act of painting - directing matter that already has a life force. In a stream of consciousness, my voice, entwined with sounds of water, addresses the flints, a friend, the painting as ‘you’, drawing a line through, a metamorphosis between body and painting.