performance: veiling

The full action consisted of:

Having an audience member hold up the strings that make up the underlying structure for my blanket;

Mimicking the the lifted strings by wrapping my face while simultaneously reciting a poem;

Having another person veil my face with a sheer piece of cloth;

and

Going inside of the tent-like structure and remaining there.

I consider this performance as a thought experiment to better help me understand the idea of inside/outside, concave/convex, and so on.. This is an idea still in progress.

The poem read:

'I thought about skin, my skin

what covers my bones

how to notice it more,

see what about it owns.

but my nature, my Self,

I've found coexists

with a layer so thin

that it begs to resist

the notion of an object

and the space it surrounds

as being distinct

from its place on the ground.'