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Installation and Performance

1995

For this installation I spent 2 and 1/2 months making over 3000, 4" tiles to grout into the floor of the gallery space. I then used earth for the grout, mud as paint for the walls, and 5 kerosene lamps to light the space. My feet were plastered into the tiled floor as to make them part of the floor. The piece consisted of sewing by hand sleeves onto a dress, being sewn into the dress, breaking myself out of the floor, collecting and preserving the broken shards, then patching the impression in the floor with dirt and new tiles. This performance was 4 hours long.

Photos: Charles Morris ©1995 r.winborn all rights reserved