Drawing on music for Assignment 3 opened up a desire for more spontaneous and intuitive drawing that I continue exploring here. After drawing on left over shower-curtains, I discover a new interesting support in the wallpaper that I pull down from the ceiling of the living room.

Our living room has fake wooden wallpaper on the ceiling and one pink wall behind an industrial set up of pipes, pared with our sparse, last minute quarantine thrown in furniture, besides the ever present wild tiles of course.

It is a relief to start steaming and pulling down the fake ceiling.

While doing so, I am thinking of all the stories these walls and ceilings have heard, of all the laughter and tears during the many years in this house. When I realize that I can pull off rather large chunks of the paper at a time, I see how this can become an interesting support for drawings:

It is the lockdown of the Covid 19 that brought us here so quickly and intertwined our history with the ones of the house.  Tom Woodfin, my dear friend who is sharing this time here with us has made me aware of the composer Marcus J Buehler who has translated the DNA structure of the virus into music:

Viral Counterpoint of the Coronavirus Spike Protein (2019-nCoV) by Markus J. Buehler on #SoundCloud

This piece is roughly one hour long. I will use the old wallpaper as a support for intuitive drawing while listening the the music from the Covid 19 virus structure. In this way, I connect the many stories absorbed from the house, with the beginning of our story here.

I tape the stripes of the wallpaper to the wall of my studio:

I find they look like ancient scrolls and decide to use only Indian ink for my marks, curious to see what spontaneous new story will emerge.

After one hour of loosing myself in the lulling sounds of the virus, combined with a breathwork mix by Tom Woodfin based on the above musical piece above this is what emerged:

As well as connecting our own presence to the house, I was curious to really feel into and listen to this musical interpretation of the virus. It is something so difficult to grasp on a conscious level, and I was hoping to find this way of feeling into what is happening.

What came out of this listening, was a feeling of overwhelm and tiredness. There was no feeling of threat or danger, I saw more a cry for help. There were many tears cried by many eyes and more water than that, some boats and many drops.

This was a fascinating way of exploring how I felt about the Covid 19 virus, which on a conscious level brings up more questions than answers. At the same time, it was an interesting way of connecting our story to this support that has soaked up so many stories told in this house.

Music:

And Tom Woodfin Mixcloud breathwork sessions: