When the ‘Gestureplace’ was raised onto a platform, I had the idea of placing this cushion to avoid hitting my head against the wall every time I go up to the bowl to prepare the colour. Gradually over the years I think its form might contain the imprint in the exact place where I rest my head every day.
I became aware of how this headrest had become the element that helps me maintain the right posture when I have to lower my gaze and focus on the bowl. My body’s way of staying in relation to the space that contains me and the objects I relate to defines a physical position that mirrors a precise mental and psychological behaviour when I prepare the colour. Remaining upright but abandoning my weight downwards leads to an ‘active passivity’, an essential condition in order to repeatedly reproduce the form of inertia required to discern the colour revealed right before my eyes.

(Written in 2020)