Year: 2018

Format: watercolour on paper

Blue Gestures (2018) is a series of ink and watercolour drawings made during my field research in Morocco. Rather than photographing, I used drawing as a way to witness—transcribing movement, postures, and fleeting gestures observed in public space and in rural desert areas. Working with pen, ink, and multiple shades of blue marker, I followed a chromatic thread that feels deeply embedded in the visual and material culture around me.

These works are not simply studies; they are the trace of a performative ritual of recording—an embodied practice of attention, repetition, and return. Back in the studio, I continued the project through digital processing, exploring how drawing might extend into space. The drawings were digitized and reconfigured as projected light, integrated into installation as luminous, immaterial versions of the original marks. The series comprises over 30 works, each 7” × 5”, holding gesture at the threshold between observation and inscription, paper and projection.