a moment alone
1998
Performance installation
Tall chair, pencil, petticoat, socks, wall painted green
Performance duration 120 min daily during exhibition
This work is an exploration and construction of a personal space, a play on externalising private thoughts in public. Up on a 3 meter chair with my back to the viewers I am confronted by the pale green wall. At this moment I have a sense of feeling alone, writing whatever comes to mind, whatever needs to happen. This work is about the experience and confrontation of responding to a blank wall in the moment. The performance involves sitting and writing for 2 hours, writing thoughts and observations challenging inner and outer experiences of the journeys of our thoughts through words and gestures. Leaving a physical expression, cloud of thoughts behind.