reconflection
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1 large stone
1 mirror
1 body, wearing mildly functional shape wear
optional: an audience text goes here
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The artist carries old weight in an inefficient way that threatens their well-being. They're encouraged to explore all the options of how to carry the stone, without letting it go.
When they reach the mirror, the artist throws the stone to break the reflection of themselves and their audience.
Entering the ruble of broken mirrors, they dance, partially nude, to the sounds of fragmented energy before collecting the reflections.
Finally, they reconfigure the mirror onto their body, dressing in the reflections captured by the audience - representing the construction of other's projections as the artist's perceived identity.
The process is imperfect, stressful, and threatens the physical form of the artist as they handle the byproduct of improvised destruction. Mirrors often fall off the body, breaking into smaller pieces and changing the direction of adornments - representing the imperfect and long-term process of constructing our own identities.
artist statement
recognition + reconnection + reflection
“Reconflection” is a process of violently dismantling old ideas and belief systems and rearranging them into something new.
The first stage is decay - carrying an old stone, representing calcified belief systems. in inconvenient and difficult ways.
The second stage is destruction - throwing the old stone into my reflection, literally destroying my understanding of self.
The third stage is reconstruction - taking the risk of adopting new and potentially “dangerous” projections of others to become a collective “new”
