Dancing Words is a series of hand-drawn digital animations exploring the visual rhythm of movement. Figures are rendered in layered strokes, their forms colliding with bold typographic shapes in fields of saturated colour. Each animation loops like a beat, compressing the arc of a gesture into a self-contained score.
The works begin in the body. My source material is dancehall — a movement language shaped in Jamaican streets and sound systems — yet here it is reimagined as pure visual composition. Embedded words anchor the image to its origin, a quiet assertion of authorship in a global culture quick to remix and rebrand.
Rooted in Caribbean visual traditions, from hand-painted street signs to the graphic economy of vintage album covers, the series treats motion as memory and pattern as pulse. The interplay of text and figure resists the flattening of culture into a generic spectacle; instead, it asks what remains when the music stops and only the image keeps time.
In Dancing Words, the body is both subject and instrument, each loop a fragment of living rhythm, suspended in digital space yet still breathing.
