Limited edition original pigment ink drawing on paper. Debuted at Nicola Anthony's Solo exhibition titled 'A Desire For Closeness' at the Presentation Arts Centre, Ireland, Jan 2020.

For this exhibition the artist gathered life stories from isolated communities in Enniscorthy and the wider county. The exhibition takes an abstract look into the many ways that loneliness is experienced: It may not be the person who looks most alone who is experiencing the most paralysing isolation.

On her journeys to Enniscorthy the artist observed murmurations of starlings performing their mesmerising dance of togetherness over the River Slaney. This phenomenon is called emergent behaviour: Their apparently choreographed coordination is caused by thousands of individual movements and actions - such as simple instincts to stay close, or respond to air currents.

There are parallels with how humans behave in a crowd or as part of a society. This observation inspired the Clouded Word series. Each drawing contains one word of emotion, but there is a disconnect and a miscommunication, it is jumbled up and not obvious until you look closer.

Size: 28 x 38 cm

Medium: Original pigment ink drawing on paper

Type: Drawing

Framed Size: 42 x 52 cm