She writes with white ink:
Fragment1 is Art Tools. Fragment2 is Soul Blanket.
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A performance composed of fragments.
A performance composed of fragments.
2017
2017
Ten years ago, I read Helene Cixous', Sorties for a class. The line - Write yourself, your body must be heard - affected me deeply. The essay also contains the line - She writes in white ink. Instead of the two page paper we were supposed to write, I drew with my breast milk. These lines and those drawings were important to me.
Ten years ago, I read Helene Cixous', Sorties for a class. The line - Write yourself, your body must be heard - affected me deeply. The essay also contains the line - She writes in white ink. Instead of the two page paper we were supposed to write, I drew with my breast milk. These lines and those drawings were important to me.
Then one time I was describing trauma to a lover and an image from a memoir I read came into my mind. One night the author walked into her kitchen to see her partner, a woman who had suffered trauma, laying on the floor with every knife in the house encircling her.
Then one time I was describing trauma to a lover and an image from a memoir I read came into my mind. One night the author walked into her kitchen to see her partner, a woman who had suffered trauma, laying on the floor with every knife in the house encircling her.
This image stayed with me for the next two and a half days, edging around in the back of my mind, until it shifted shape and became me surrounded by my art tools. I gathered art tools and created the circle in my living room with two other artists as witness. It was powerful.
This image stayed with me for the next two and a half days, edging around in the back of my mind, until it shifted shape and became me surrounded by my art tools. I gathered art tools and created the circle in my living room with two other artists as witness. It was powerful.
The following week, I had a rehearsal. I brought the art tools and a blanket. I had used the blanket as a printing serface and the shapes from the printing ink resembled blood. I arranged the tools in a corner of the rehearsal space and spread the blanket out in the middle of the space. As I moved in the circle of tools, the piece with the art tools grew larger. Then I moved to the blanket. At that moment, She writes with white ink was born as a series of performance fragments. Two have been performed so far.
The following week, I had a rehearsal. I brought the art tools and a blanket. I had used the blanket as a printing serface and the shapes from the printing ink resembled blood. I arranged the tools in a corner of the rehearsal space and spread the blanket out in the middle of the space. As I moved in the circle of tools, the piece with the art tools grew larger. Then I moved to the blanket. At that moment, She writes with white ink was born as a series of performance fragments. Two have been performed so far.
Fragment1
Art Tools
Fragment2
Soul Blanket
Write your self: Your body must be heard. - Helene Cixous, Sorties
Movement consultation on She writes with white ink was provided by Liv Jensen.
She writes with white ink [Fragment1: Art tools] was photographed by Blessing Etumudor, Karyn E, and Rosa Evans-Lombe and filmed by Mery McNett; She writes with white ink [Fragment2: Soul Blanket] was photographed by Blessing Etumudor and Rosa Evans-Lombe and filmed by Mery McNett.
Rehearsals for She writes with white ink [Fragment1: Art Tools] and [Fragment2: Soul Blanket] were photographed by Liv Jensen and Marianne Evans-Lombe.
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