The Exploding Punctuated Umlauts is a drawing apparatus that was used in a performance to document mark-making on a large canvas. The drawing apparatus was made to be wearable. It makes use of umlauts made of expanding foam and includes roofing nails interspersed between the umlauts. Small paint and glitter filled balloons were then attached with string ‘ripcords’ that were pulled to position and pop the balloons on the roofing nails. The subsequent ‘painting’ was created in a singular moment in time, never to be recreated in exactly the same way. the apparatus itself was documented after the performance and the images were used to create new spatial scenes that play with scale and model manipulations.
