Heather Hansen, a New Orleans-based artist who loves her
work and really puts herself into it. In her project, "Emptied
Gestures," she creates something so extraordinary that it leaves you
speechless.
A mysterious stance on a huge, blank piece of paper.
With a piece of charcoal in her hand, she lets her imagination come to life.
Stretching her body all over the white canvas... and something incredible starts to take shape.
She contorts, and glides over the canvas as the charcoal smoothly traces her every movement.
Her movements are so mesmerizing that you almost forget what is being drawn.
Her goal is to "match her heartbeat with the beat of the universe."
The emotion that she puts into each piece is almost tangible, with the near-perfect symmetry of her work giving a physical form to the emotional balance she feels as she draws.
The finished piece is always so emotionally charged.
Heather has a deep and spiritual connection with her work.
Her artworks are black and white, but the nature of her art invites us to explore the gray areas that connect our minds and bodies.
It shows us that even when we are not as perfect as our society would like us to be...
... if we dare to touch the world around us...
we can truly create something amazing.
Heather is a dancer, painter, and sculptor. She has performed all of her talents around the world and she doesn't plan on stopping any time soon.
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