Heather Hansen and her combination of art and dance

Heather Hansen is an artist from New Orleans who creates art that blends dance and drawing together. She uses her own body and soul to create shapes and with elegance she gives life to symmetrical and harmonious drawings.

Her only tool of work other than her own body is charcoal and only music can give her the grace and inspiration to produce art. In her series called 'Emptied Gestures' she leaves her body in command and creates figures that remind of the Rorschach test.

Every curve and shade seems to give a message of liberation, that remains immortal now that it's impressed on a blank sheet.
"Emptied Gestures is an experiment in kinetic drawing.

In this series, I am searching for ways to download my movement directly onto paper, emptying gestures from one form to another and creating something new in the process", Hansen explains.
Thousands of viewers stand still around her as she creates, not wanting to miss the occasion to be part of such an intimate and beautiful experience.
She spent 2013 creating a painting every day and now in 2014 her work can currently be seen in the group exhibition called 'The Value of a Line' at The Ochi Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho, through the 31th of March 2014.