Abstract
The Flourishing Folds is a solo video-art project, which re-negotiates the author’s relationship with ageing through creating intimate skin-portraits in near-touch close-up. The article reflects on these processes of re-possessing and re-purposing images of ageing skin and shares affirming experiences of embodied, sensory-perceptual video making. Tibetan Buddhist meditation practices inform the project and the article shares reflective writing on deep body meditations that dwell in locations where creasing skin offers pockets for holding spiritual humility and where folds form valleys that map sacred sites of vulnerability, self-acceptance and self-esteem. Writings by Stephen Connor, Claudia Benthien and Michel Serres illuminate the text with reflections on skin and embodied consciousness. New paradigms for dancing into maturity and the visual artwork of Helen Chadwick, Pipilotti Rist, Marna Clarke and Faith Wilding inform the project. The article writes into locales where creasing skin may increase skin-on-skin contact and offer sites of sensual, sensed soul, consciousness.
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