synthetic emotions

synthetic emotion is all about the synthesized material emotions of the dancer's accessories. The dancer's body is engulfed by the costume the 'pleated silk saree', a visual assistant to map her minute and subtle expressions. In this set of exploratory mapping exercise; I examine the crease, the fold, the stretch, the pull and the twist of the rich silk with reference to the bodily pose or the dance gesture.  

the silk fabric / crease / fold / twist / stretch

PEN and INK drawing showing the body - movement and the synthetic emotions of the fabric. The central concentric circles with lines is the pleated fabric woven around the black void (the dancer / body). The radiating straight lines shows movement and the thickened curves shows the embodied accessory of the dancer in a particular sequel within the performance.