Charcoal, like water, is an elemental language. Formed through fire and time, it is carbon—what remains when life meets heat. In this workshop, we explore charcoal not only as medium, but as memory of earth itself: glacier, wind, rock, breath. Unlike ink, charcoal resists fluidity. It breaks, scatters, lingers. It mimics the weathering processes that shape mountains, carve valleys, erode bodies. Through it, we draw not only lines but forces: of evaporation, cracking, melting, disintegration, sedimentation.
Rooted in classical Western drawing, this workshop also departs from it. Here, the body becomes a seismograph, tracing the states of matter—solid, liquid, gas—through gesture, presence, and decay. As its sister workshop Be Water channels flow and liquidity, Weathering Matter invites us to meet resistance, weight, and the slow erosion of form. Together, they form a diptych of transformation: fluid and fractured, yielding and grounded.