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Joy (Expressive Gesture) 2017
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There exists a complex relationship between the semantic content of a gesture and its lived experience. In other words, while Joy’s gestures support her verbal statements detailing her sartorial experiences, likes, dislikes etc; those same movements can also be understood as signifying and reflexively recalling what are privately experienced somatic experiences of being dressed. While those gestures are largely ambiguous and under-determined they nonetheless highlight the continuities between the physical enactment of those signifying gestures and how the visceral and kineasthetic experience of making those gestures informs the actual shape of those gestures. As Noland insightfully points out, the experience of producing a gesture, ‘contributes to a sign’s contour, dynamic, duration, and communicative force’ (2008, p. XIII).
