2005
performance
photographic print
40 x 29 inches
Vanitas
curated by Colton Stenke
The Brewery Project
Los Angeles
The performer draws a black/white/grey image of the Moon in chalk on the mat of a custom-made trampoline. She models her image from a projection as a guide, but her drawing is soft, lumpy and materially awkward compared to the slide's beauty and stillness. She dons white stockings with some effort as they are ~120 ft. long (on a scale of 1cm: 40km, representative of the distance between the Earth and the Moon), and rolls herself up to the perimeter of the tramp. She begins jumping on the surface, volatizing not only the material collected there, but also an image of herself; she's moving faster than shutter speed, a blur in space. As the 25 lb. stockings eventually slip away from her legs like the smoke of a rocket trail, she begins to feel weightless, her power and speed increasing as she leaves a disintegrating body behind. The chalk is forced through the screen of the tramp below until a new drawing of the Moon
is created on the floor and she and her audience are left standing on this new ground.
