photo by Dominique Munoz
photo by Dominique Munoz
photo by Dominique Munoz
"Rhyme with Body Unseen" is a performance of a wearable sculpture made in under 24 hours and an accompanying poem chronicling the making process.
To make this sculpture, I welded, walked, gathered, wove, stitched, and strung materials. I worked in solitude for some parts and among friends for others. The artwork is not solely the object produced but the process of making it and the performance of it being worn and witnessed.
This artwork was conceived as a surrender to nature. The performance consisted of dressing, reading a poem, and walking into Lake Michigan with the poem in hand--destroying it. Once submerged, I returned to land.
The day "Rhyme with Body Unseen" was performed was windy, and the waves were energetic.
photo by Hai-Wen Lin
photo by Dominique Munoz
2024
steel, grasses, oak leaves, thread, string, poetry, performance
"Rhyme with Body Unseen" was performed at Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI in August, 2024 with the course Rhyming the Land taught by Hai-Wen Lin and Manal Shoukair. Thanks is given to the participants of this course for witnessing and making space.