Exhibition "we are built in water," Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL, November 12-December 18, 2022
Dinner for two leftovers, porcelain, ash, various sea life uprooted in storms, salt crystals, wood, linen, hardware 240 x 30 x 30 inches, 2022
dedicated to ___________. wood side table, paint, ash paintings with gold thread, found frames, size varies, 2022
left: dinner for two leftovers with rememberings, porcelain, various sea life uprooted in storms, salt crystals, wood,60 x 7.5 x 30 inches, 2022
right: dedicated to ___________., detail, ash paintings with gold thread, frames, size varies, 2022
"choker", various sea life uprooted in storms, salt crystals, vitrine, pedestal, 23 x 23 30 inches, 2022
“we are built in water” is a performance for video with an original sound score, enacted inside a 94 x 60-inch vinyl bag—conceived simultaneously as womb and body bag. The performance unfolds, navigating the thresholds between presence and absence, becoming and unbecoming. It is a meditation on the unseen spaces that we inhabit before birth and after death—unknowable realms that bracket our existence. In this suspended state, the body becomes both container and contained, a fluid gesture through time, memory, and the porous edges of being.
Performed at Cape May, NJ, in 2019, 3;00 excerpts, accompanied by the earth, sea, and fog. To view the video in its entirety, click here.