Ooze Machines: watercolour series

The Ooze Machines series of watercolour paintings explore how Heaney and others overflowed their own boundaries and interacted with each other in perhaps unwanted ways.

Heaney initially works on wet paper so the water follows it’s own inner sensorium, creating it’s own depitions of objects that she works into the composition.  Watercolour has it’s own agency as it creeps across the paper. As the watery surface dries, tide marks form, leaving outlines of new landscapes, new bodies and new entanglement.

Working in collaboration with the watercolour, gradually, Heaney creates a layered multiverse across the page, suggesting a mingling of different realities and perspectives simultaneously.

Fine details, undulating lines, tide lines, text and gentle marks draw the viewer into this im-exploded microcosm of quantum perception, unrealised memories and interior life.