Internal Gestures

My body has a memory of my history too, it is a living document to my past and my being. Working with the body I want to consider the fragments left in the marks, to investigate what traces of the physical experience can be seen in the material. The clay records time passed as it is handled and persuaded. The affectable material captures the events that demonstrate the relationship between myself and my body. Capturing the act of experience through photography allows for distance and alternative perspectives. Will the clay serve as an extension of the body, recording the physical relationship between the material and myself through the marks made, or simply a metaphor for experience? Can the clay serve as a document when it becomes static? Frozen in a state of performance.