The Language of Gesture, 2025
This series re-imagines the chapter titles from Giotto’s Language of Gestures as meditations rather than references —fragments that echo across centuries. Phrases such as 'On the Gesture of Sorrow' or 'On the Gesture of Awe' become open scores, reinterpreted through the visual dialects of advertising and re-framed details of historical artworks.
I am drawn to how Giotto’s ordered taxonomy of emotion—once meant to teach devotion—resonates with today’s codified gestures of persuasion and desire. By juxtaposing the sacred language of feeling with the commercial language of display, I examine how gesture circulates across time, losing and regaining meaning through repetition.
The work lingers between instruction and improvisation, belief and branding—where the body, even when fragmented by repetition, continues to gesture, to feel, to speak a language older than words.
The Speaking Hand
Awe
Prayer
Crossing the Hands on Your. Chest
The Gesture of Incapacity
Covered Hands
The Imposition of Hands
Grasping the Wrist
Expulsion
The Pact of Judas
