There are three elements to every performance: my drawings, my body, and the shadow formed in between.

2006

Once upon a time, I was gifted a studio. 

In exchange for the space I was to perform four times for an audience of student paper-makers. I had never created a performance. I gathered several endcuts of large rolls of paper. I drew for hours and hours on these huge paper scrolls. I had the idea early on to perform my drawings and immediately dismissed it. The evening before my first performance, my daughter visited the studio. She saw the scrolls of drawings and said,

Mama, those are beautiful.

I said, Yes, but they are not a performance.

She said, Yes, they are.

And then she danced my drawings.

Body Drawings I

Body Drawings III

Body Drawings IV

Special thanks to Walter Delp.

Body Drawings I was photographed by Mariah Houk and filmed by Pittsburg State University.

Body Drawings II was filmed by Pittsburg State University.

Body Drawings III was photographed by Portico Bowman and Pittsburg State University and filmed by Pittsburg State University.

Body Drawings IV was photographed by Pittsburg State University and filmed by Pittsburg State University.