As fortunes usually unfold, Morgan O’Hara’s path took a new course in a Chinese restaurant in the early ’80s. At Brandy Ho’s Hunan Restaurant, cooking was a martial art. Watching the chefs from across the counter, O’Hara became transfixed by the speed and precision of their execution. She had been studying movement in terms of carefully considered mapping for some time, but this scene threw her in the moment, and she soon began her first two-handed drawings…what were to become her LIVE TRANSMISSION drawings. Part performance art, these works involve her assuming the movement of a subject with a number of pencils in both hands thus recording another’s movement on paper. In effect, she has developed a practice where life drawing becomes live drawing.