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ORAL DEFORESTATION III


July 2012
00:24:00
Nature Fetish | Panoply Performance Laboratory
Grace Exhibition Space
Brooklyn, New York

+ collected branches from a Brooklyn park
+ video projection
+ bleach
+ plastic razors
STATEMENT
Oral Deforestation III acknowledges my revolving struggle with an instinctive urge to use, consume and waste. While offering a mere cosmetic resolve to core ecological issues, this piece also demonstrates the absurdity of half-hearted environmental revolutions within myself and our economy.

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION

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