The Fool
Title: The fool who repeats again and again, "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. She who repeats, "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.
Medium: Performance, Mixed Media Sculpture
Dimentions: Variable
Current Duration as of December 13: Four hours
Year: 2013
The fool is an installation and performance about trying to break the unhealthy patterns that are perpetuated in relationships.
Often it seems, so many people repeat the same relationship stories over and over again throughout their lives. The repetition and recycling of relational problems is a common story, and is often due to an individual's unwillingness to change their own pattern. This performance ritual is about the futile actions of an individual unwilling to get up and change their own cycle, all the while praying that it will end.
The installation is made up of a shelf and sculpture that is hung on the wall. On the shelf are the words, the end is near, and a sculpture that signifies the artist as a woman in the place of power.
For the performance, the artist is wearing white clothing with the title of the piece printed on her back. With charcoal, she writes the history of her romantic relationships down the wall and onto the floor. When she gets to the end, she goes up to the statue, says a prayer, and begins the process again. As she goes she will smudge and rewrite the charcoal over and over again. The duration of the piece will last until the artist deems it finished.
