MELTING PATTERNS
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June 2011
01:33:00 Spattered Columns Gallery Art Connects New York New York, New York + coal + ice + sugar + rope + 100 gloves + 38 plastic cups |
STATEMENT
Melting Patterns explores confinement, ritual, habits, restriction and waste through a symbolic use of material and repetitious actions. Why am I, why are we as a human race bound by patterns set by ourselves and by our predecessors? This performance exercises deliberate efforts to alter personal patterns and perceptions. |
ACTIONS
Stand in a moment of reflection with all weight placed forward in the rope harness. Put on 100 surgical gloves, one over the other. Once all gloves are placed on hands, receive a block of ice. The ice drips into a collection of plastic cups. Sip the liquid from the ice block while intermittently tearing gloves off with teeth. With bare hands, hold ice as it continues to drip into plastic and freezes hands. Relinquish the ice block, circle post by covering backward steps with sugar. Lick through the sugar footsteps and take a final sip of the ice/coal water.
Stand in a moment of reflection with all weight placed forward in the rope harness. Put on 100 surgical gloves, one over the other. Once all gloves are placed on hands, receive a block of ice. The ice drips into a collection of plastic cups. Sip the liquid from the ice block while intermittently tearing gloves off with teeth. With bare hands, hold ice as it continues to drip into plastic and freezes hands. Relinquish the ice block, circle post by covering backward steps with sugar. Lick through the sugar footsteps and take a final sip of the ice/coal water.