FROM MEDIUM TO AUTHOR

Hildegard writes under compulsion of the sick body; Hilma af Klint paints under dictation of spirits she eventually masters. Both genealogies converge on the question posed by Clarisse's own mythopoetic drawing practice:

At what point does an image stop being passively received — medium, channel — and become authored — artist?

And is that shift gradual, or is the distinction itself a retrospective fiction?