Elementary Entanglement
Wax crayon and watercolor on cotton paper, 8.5x11”/21x28cm, 2021.
I take the title of the work from Denise Ferreira da Silva’s text in which she develops the idea of “The Entangled World,” an uncertain condition of sociality “under which everything that exists is a singular expression of each and every actual-virtual other existant.” From da Silva’s perspective, the “elementary entanglement” is how we can experience difference without separability. In the mother-daughter relationship, difference can be a fine line, a deep hole, or an explosive reaction. My daughter Helena draws the lines with crayons, and I fill with watercolor some of the spaces that she contoured.