Debbie Humm
Website: www.deborahhumm.co.uk
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I express the complex nerve issues that confront the body, focusing on (mis)communication between the brain and body, caused by broken connections which result in profound, perplexing and random external manifestations. I approach this complex and multifaceted subject in a multi-layered, multidimensional way.
Reading this statement, you are using your external bodily senses, multiple parts of your brain - most importantly the internal nervous system’s communication method to pass the signals back and forth. These awesome abilities are normally taken for granted - It is not until the system lets us down that we become aware of it. Not just people with multiple sclerosis MS experience nerve issues, memory fog, headaches, blurred vision, wobbly footing or memory blank patches, but I strive in my work to heighten an awareness of this experience. Ensuring I keep abreast of neuroscience and MS developments, I use my art as a tool to breakdown and disseminate the knowledge and findings. MS is known as the ‘Snowflake’ disease due to symptoms being so varied. As an MS sufferer I use my body to measures and record the shift and changes to my condition to discover a pattern, a reoccurring rhythm which I put into my drawings, as my snowflake-neuron metaphor. These seismographic snowflakes drawings work as wonderful repetitive, process lead, colour therapy. Freeing my mind and focusing my thought by keeping the body busy with the process, calming the messy white noise and the twists that tighten to a razor point. I layer these individual Journeys intuitively, creating depth; a harsh discordant mixture of thought. I also work in film to capture and elongate the moment, enabling the nanosecond between bodily sensation and action, enter our comprehension. Interpreting the internal synapses journey of the signal into a visual context. |
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