Braid Bound - Savella Michael

Savella Michael has been continuously working on the project, Delicious Buns for almost three years now. Having developed in the process, at first stage, however, she worked with small-scale and large-scale black and white drawings of braids and buns set in different moods and contexts.

At a second stage, Savella Michael developed these drawings into what look like a delicate drawing book. Each drawing on every page retells a tale, as these stories slide smoothly into each other. Girls’ pony tales fly in disarray, some at violent speed and high impact, while others, symmetrically parading into what might wonderfully remind us of Alice’s other worlds. This currently extended project, titled Braid Bound, includes a video, which, in some ways, documents the artist’s silent telling of this drawing book experience. Turning the pages of each illustration, she allows the viewer to “read” each leaf, entering and exiting each one at the slow and reflective rhythm of this movement. While the artist is not physically present in this video, her fingers are visible at the bottom corner of the right page. / Text by Maria Petrides

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