Expectations Change Everything

Jodi Sharp
2013
Performance

It is easy to get hung up on expectations about how an interaction should be or what certain relationships should look like. It is a common experience for human beings to expect things from other people, and be disappointed when their desires aren't always met.

In this piece the artist creates a ritual to allow her to release some of her own presumptions, and come to a place of contentment and acceptance of what is real.

Focusing on a specific relationship that she wanted to change her sense of attachment to, the artist writes down every bit of correspondence between herself and the individual. These pieces of paper are then sewn into a costume that the artist puts on her body.

Desiring to come to a place of release and acceptance, the artist wears the paper suit into her bathtub, and watches as the words dissolve and fall away, bringing her back to the present and to what is real.

For in process, see here.

Written about by Stella Lawless on her blog Stella The Good Witch

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