While I was researching I came across interdisciplinary artist Heather Hansen. She is a contemporary performance artist and a professional dancer. What I enjoy about her work is that her whole body is involved in the piece. She is not only creating a physical mark on a blank surface, but she is also asserting her physical presence to the viewer by performing. I would like to learn more about her process as I move forward with the theme of dance and body language. I think an art form like this would inform all of my electives. In ceramics the patterns and shapes made can be used as designs on plates and cups or turned into more sculptural pieces, in photography I could document the process of making the marks or simply investigate the marks by zooming in on certain points and distort them, and in animation I could depict an array of repetitive movements of the body through stop motion.
