Project details

Wild swimming in the wind; the circling touch of breeze on naked skin, creates currents into which the bounded self dissolves.
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Operating at the threshold of dissolution and desire, Song of the Lark recomposes Jules Breton’s (1884) painting and Willa Cather’s (1915) novel of the same name, in a performance to camera work, situated somewhere between portraiture and expanded painting. The novel, itself a portrait of an artist in the making, tells the story of a woman who in finding her voice, finds her liberation. I relate this through the perceptual experience of a reconfiguration of the self, in which sense-stimulation becomes the access point to bodily transcendence. Ever on the verge of the erotic, resistance succumbs in eddies of ephemeral release.
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Taking advantage of the acoustics of a stairwell, the multi-channel, site-specific installation at Standpoint Gallery, begins my experimentation with spatial energetics. Ripples of sound and barely-there projection on voile, point to intangible dimensions, mirroring discoveries of the insubstantiation of the self.