Performance Piece: Lie In It (2017)
Photo by Vanessa Jagodinksy at performance rehearsal
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Photo by Logan Lynette Burroughs
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“Lie In It” is a private performance depicting selected stages of grief. The stages represented are: Pain, Depression, and Hope/Rebirth. A rule of 3 is implemented throughout the piece: three stages, three outfits, three poses.
Pain: a blue outfit, fetal position.
Depression: a black outfit, lying on stomach.
Hope / Rebirth: a white outfit, lying on back peacefully/“funeral casket”
The physical marks left on the body from lying on the wire bed are meant to display the emotional impressions left during each stage.
Pain: a blue outfit, fetal position.
Depression: a black outfit, lying on stomach.
Hope / Rebirth: a white outfit, lying on back peacefully/“funeral casket”
The physical marks left on the body from lying on the wire bed are meant to display the emotional impressions left during each stage.