Walk: Limestone

Performance, 2018

Beginning with a 25 pound pile of limestone, I step through the powder and walk along the transfer track in a former furniture factory. I continually traverse the track, from limestone pile to exit. Gradually, the limestone dust disperses upon the ground until the pile disappears.

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.