What I Am Willing to Lose
2015
Performance + Media + Sculpture
Three figures, enshrouded in a cocoon of introspection, begin the meticulous process of navigating their entanglements amongst a mound of hair, each fiber a relic of past self. The act is slow, a ritualistic severance from the ties that bind us to our bodily existence. As the performance progresses, the once unified hair amassed figure transforms before our eyes, the shedding of hair revealing three nude women, symbolizing a deeper metamorphosis. This is not mere grooming away from our collective and superficial but an evolution, a transcendent journey towards a purer form of existence. The Japanese artist Fangophila begins to cast and remove pieces from the bodies, throwing them to the sides of the stage. The audience invited to witness and reflect on the essence of identity, to confront their own reflections on the disposable nature of our being. It is an exploration of vulnerability, of the beauty found in the act of letting go. Media was created reminescent of the primordial or womb like umbilical cord connecting us and other living things into the existence of this earthly world.