Daniel Marks Year 3 - Ideas / research / tests

Layers - painting on anatomy in sensual gestures, starting with bones (gesso or white powder), then muscle (red paint allowed to drip as blood). Paper or fabric (already decorated with figurative designs?) is then pressed on to stick to the paint, “bleeding” as pigment is soaked in. These imprints then become their own works and are arranged in bodily formation.

Tension tension tension

Time as bondage

Pulling between birth and death

Erotic flux between states

Always comes back to this

The rot and dirt

Wet soil gripping around ankles

Appendages held down in mouths of the earth

Tear out

Tear free

Tear my heart out

Hold me into the water

Stillness even as I thrash

Convulse

Ripples as my spine twists and turns

Gently lapping at your hands

As you stoop down by the edge

Feeling slowly inwards

Sliding now

Character creation

Sagas - cycling back

Game over and respawn

Spawnpoint- location of rebirth/reiteration in virtual game-space

Respawn as reincarnation/rebirth/metamorphosis

Dark Souls series - immense passages of time in continuous death and “rekindling” as plot and gameplay point

Gothic-posthuman implications of cyclic respawning gameplay narratives - dying and reliving experience in continuously evolved and customised forms