Vigil
Installation & Interactive Work
paired with video performance piece.
Vigil is a reflection on inner conflict and the struggle for self alignment.
The installation features a performance piece where I engage in a symbolic tug of war with myself. In the end, I finally set the rope on fire and let it burn to ash. The act represents the push and pull of opposing emotions that can’t seem to loosen their grip. By burning the rope, I choose to break the cycle.
For the installation, a basin that would normally be used to grow plants, is filled with an enormous volume of sand. The sand represents the heavy weight of tiny fragments that add together collectively. The fragments of the burnt rope are woven around the base. Visitors are invited to participate with the piece by taking hand-dipped beeswax candles that I made from a local beekeeper in New Mexico. By choosing to take the time to reflect and light a candle before placing it in the sand, they are making their own personal offering similar to the burning of the rope. They are choosing to honor and release something within that they have been wrestling with.
