Where The Weight Settles
About the work
Where the Weight Settles developed through the accumulation of paint and plaster until the figure began to feel compressed into the surrounding surface. Rather than remaining clearly separate from the ground, the body seems to gather, erode and partly disappear within it.
Material density shifts across the figure, with plaster and paint building into some areas more heavily than others. Colour moves through the surface in a similar way, acting less as description than as a register of pressure, sensitivity and imbalance.
The head is often omitted from these figures. Its absence grew from a recurring sense of heaviness—physical, but also harder to locate — and from the way that sensation can alter how the body is experienced from within.
Plaster is important to this body of work because of its associations with repair and rebuilding. Here, however, it does not return the figure to wholeness. It becomes part of the body’s instability, carrying traces of what has accumulated, shifted and remained unresolved.
Artwork details
2026
Acrylic and plaster on canvas
30 × 30 cm