Sketches for Moulded River Series

Moulded River is the working title for the next series of work for the Stream Project. The German Romantic poet Novalis wrote, "There is no doubt that our body is a moulded river", and it is from this idea that the series takes its name. The work will be a series of vertical hanging scrolls on architectural mylar film and will make visual parallels between the flow form patterns created by my own flow experiments using mica dust, and the flow form patterns found in the bloodstreams of the heart, using stills from Dr Kilner's film. The film, Bloodstreams of the Heart, is produced using data from a non-invasive medical imaging technique called magnetic resonance velocity mapping.