Much of my work is performative. “You are performing unconsious memories from your childhood” said Ernesto Puljol at Maine Media during my MFA.
I often felt disconnected from others, like I was underwater, invisible to the world.
A wedding dress is iconic, it is heavy with symbolism.
I was compelled to take this wedding dress and submerge it in the Atlantic Ocean, the sun made magical patterns on the fabric, waves and tide moved it in and out, folds became visible in the fabric. Sand shifted onto the garment, ripples of water appeared.
I felt unseen as a female, as a child and later.
A five year old, innocence.