Mollie McCullough 

My work is not performance art, but my bodily presence plays an important role in my practice. This project developed from my love of the ocean and, more importantly, my bodily experience of being in the sea. My work resembles a visual diary. I seek to communicate the push and pull of the ocean, its roughness and serenity, by documenting the same swim to a buoy, on different days. I revisit these experiences through memory and also make notes that record the conditions, the elements and my own swimming stroke. I focus on my physical experience of my body, the weather, and the changing nature of the ocean. Working on large sheets of paper with graphite powder, I then visually articulate these experiences using my entire body. My work is ephemeral, intended to be left where it was created, along with the evidence of its making.