Relay: Flour

Performance, 2019

With a teaspoon, I strive to transfer 100 pounds of flour from a pile on my right to a new pile on my left. Much of the powder spills during the transfer, leaving the second mound significantly smaller.

This performance is part of Simple Actions, a series that explores the meditative possibilities of domestic labor. Many of my actions reflect a Sisyphean futility, a repetition that renders minimal production. I perform each act in an abandoned industrial site, a place of male-dominance in the global West. My bodily presence, and my reference to traditionally female roles, opens a dialog that centers upon gender, history, location, and our common desires for what is unattainable, and continually elusive.