Jodi Sharp Spiritual Art

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Seeking to Worship in the Wilderness

Jodi Sharp
2011
Performance
Seeking to Worship in the Wilderness was a day-long performance done within the confines of Montreal city. 

Working from the distopic reality of human separated from nature, the artist walks with a skeletal remnant of a naturalistic form. Through a nine hour performance, the artist walks and walks, stopping to try and perform ritualistic acts in the streets and alleys of Montreal. Desperately trying to reclaim city space and make it into an expanse where nature could still be regarded and even worshiped, the artist essentially fails, but is successful only in the temporary imprint of a different sort of image within the city limits.