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Gestural Lineages

Ornament as empathy

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Ornament as empathy

FAS–MOD–ROC

Ornament as empathy

Index Code:

FAS–MOD–ROC

Orgin:

Dublin, Ireland / London, UK

Field Notes:

ornament as empathy · sweetness as armor · theatre as intimacy

Defining Moment:

Fall 2016 — Ornament and restraint balanced; vulnerability became form

Simone Rocha

(

2010 – present

)

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Rocha builds tenderness into theatre.

Pearls, lace, and tulle orbit vulnerability — sweetness and power intertwined.

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Her world is ornate yet empathetic, using excess as a language of control and connection.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Simone Rocha’s work, this approach appears where softness frames structure.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Simone Rocha’s work, this approach appears where softness frames structure.

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Grace Wales Bonner

Heritage as rhythm

Structure as intimacy

In Dialogue

Cecilie Bahnsen

Air as architecture

Intimacy as structure