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Crow Explained I have created felt stories of crow’s relationships with himself and life which is holding a mirror to our existence expressed through the medium of ink on paper. The acrobatic stances of crow remind us of events and feelings we can relate to in their flowing, violent or raw state. In my artwork I use a non-existing crow body to create the stories that Ted Hughes’s poetry inspired in the interplay between the unconscious and the construction of the conscious. The body forms its own relations of force in a series of changes through movement manifested in the flow of crow’s interrelated muscular tonalities and becoming through the ink techniques on paper. The story of Crow, by Ted Hughes, begins with God having a nightmare after completing His Creation which is being mocked by nightmare. God responds by challenging nightmare to do better. It is the experiences of Crow, God’s companion and wanderer infected with fallibility, complex and ‘a Horror beyond redemption’ which seduced me to use Crow, From the Life and Songs of the Crow, as central theme in my ink drawings produced over a few years. Crow is governed by his form-shaping field which is the invisible magnetic morphogenetic field that we can see the effects from in his appearance. I used part human and part crow to connect the viewer to the ability to identify visual experience of the chaos, violent feeling and aesthetic interpretations sparked by Hughes’s poetry. Crow is a consequence of man’s separation from nature. What it means to be a self has always been intertwined with what it means to be a body; both terms can be identified through the capacity of trauma. My drawings reflect the relationships of forms both positive and negative which are inseparable from each other because the human body and the crow body are in constitutive relations. As my process, I interpret crow’s flying as graceful falling towards earth, a rather mindful gliding through space rather than a dangerous plunging from heaven. The expressive ink techniques open me to a deepening discovery of and understanding that thought is metabolic and manifest directly on the body.