The longest time since I've seen you, Video Performance, 2021.
The maintenance performance video examines loss through pre-grief when caregiving, and post-death, the final separation of body, mind and soul. When caregiving, you lose your loved one multiple times during their illness. In this work, I perform the action of cleaning: a mundane everyday action of maintenance. In my late grandmother’s dress: my body, a mirror image of hers, scrubs the floor. The dress becomes wet, and the dirt on the floor attaches to me. Much like grief, there is no escaping its entanglement with the everyday, the mundaneness of and the memory of a loved one. The action, gesture and embodiment of the way in which they live on in us and through us.
Film Stills tryptic, Archival pigment print on cotton paper, 4 of 5 editions remain. 2021.