Since arriving at Crawford, my research and practice has been informed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of ‘flesh’, which he describes as ‘surrounding and permeating the body, space and experience’. This describes the audible world which connects and informs us, however, audible information also invades and interferes. In emphasising my bodily perception of this invisible interference through drawing, my work challenges traditional ideas of sound; its visual representation and the logic of visual perception in the technological age we live in now. Through an inter-disciplinary and a process-led approach, this work employs visual observation, listening, memory and response, combined with mark making and layers. Working intuitively on surfaces with a fluid orientation, their state is changed – expressing the bodily experience of interference, temporality, asymmetry and texture - visual or physical. The body of work presented here, referred to as ‘Body Echoes’, shows a series of gestural mixed media drawings on paper. These are exhibited at different heights, therefore conveying how sound invades us and our space. Like the human body, paper has a history, responding and remembering its influences. The accompanying audio captures the sound made during the drawing process, propagating, once again, the experience of audible interference.