Convergence

Stills from my video Convergence, 2009

I am newly drawn to the solidity of the body as it converges with the translucency of water. The spring dance project video takes on a shape of its own, and I try to follow it's lead. Some myth or legend shows its face, and became a narrative thread that is hard to overlook. Subliminal poems emerge. So I allow myself to pursuit the illusive. Falling asleep on piles of epic stories; turning pages as Circe turns Odysseus' men into pigs.

Archaeology

I find myself returning to ideas, as I disassemble sculptures and reassemble and reinvent them here far away from the place where they were envisioned. After making three ocean crossings, I let the work morph into something slightly different. I recombine them with new elements, textures, metaphors. I snapped them apart in a garden in Switzerland, then squish them into tile grout upon a card table in Manhattan. One month of weekends were spent free diving in Hawaii so to collect these contemporary artifacts. They were alive then, being claimed back by the sea in a hundred year process. Young coral polyps, sponges and veils of plant life disguised them. I stole them from the seabed to study them, so change their context and reveal where lives collide.

The River Holds the Memory of Light-Hudson

Three views I took from inside the Hudson River, January 2008