Mapping 201 Days
201 Days is the awesome documentation of physical sensations felt by artist Katie Lewis. Wow!
She used pushpins to represent significant "sense events" and connected them together with red thread. Each section of the grid on the wall is correlated with a different part of the body. Every time she felt a sensation in a particular area on her body, she documented the feeling onto the corresponding place on the grid with a pin and the date.
Pins, pencil, thread; 84" x 48" x 1.5"
Katie about her work:
The work is often organized into grid-like charts and diagrams mimicking science and medicine’s representations of the body as a specimen, visualy displayed for the purpose of gaining knowledge. In this way I create distance from the information and objectify the experience, giving a false sense that the body is accessible and easily understood.
