“I was both making something and painting myself with memories I’d already made”
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Continous Bodies, video performance 2021 — Seated on a clay slab Katalina Caliendo is overlapped with footage the artist took of a pond’s reflection in Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan.
The body and plant artefacts merge as liquid clay or clay ‘slip’ & both plants and flowers Caliendo foraged and kept for sentimentality become vehicles or brushes to paint onto the artists back, neck, & arm.