This drawing series was created alongside the work on the film Vortex of Separation over a period of five years. The film was presented as a site-specific piece in the solo exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2013, alongside some of these drawings.

In this series, Sasportas recorded vortices that collapse inward upon themselves, as well as those that absorb and expel fragments of life that have been excluded, repressed, or suspended in time. Fear, repulsion, and attraction to a gravitational force—functioning like a latent, active sinkhole—emerge as contradictory tensions at the core of Sasportas’ drawing practice.

The series was created entirely through the circular motion of the artist’s right hand. This gesture stages a dialogue between inward-pulling and outward-expelling forces, releasing fragments of roots, trunks, and tree branches. The simultaneous absorption and expulsion of these fragments embody the contradictory forces at the core of her sculptural and drawing practice alike.

The coexistence of contradictory forces of equal intensity in Sasportas’ work shapes and charges the floating field of her films and installations. A circular motion emerges: a collapsing, terrified subject whose strength is overpowered by a greater force pulling it inward, contrasted with another subject expelled outward—resisting, functioning, and being torn apart. Particles suspended in the air, missing fragments, and the ceaseless movement of an overloaded, charged space form the central questions and pivotal axes of Sasportas’ drawing practice.

A floating subject—together with questions of belonging, rupture, collapse, absorption, and expulsion from the social fabric—generates in Sasportas’ drawings a void: a sensation of hovering above an abyss, coupled with a fascination for a disconnected, malfunctioning, spinning compass needle.

The series explores questions of submission, devotion, resistance, and the pull toward the opposite direction, as a central principle of a turbulent and contradictory dreamlike movement.