making the invisible visible
2018
30 minute performance
Image documentation by Alessandra Pearson, Sarah Krantz, & MG Bernard
For you need to gain weight to stay healthy, I wanted to reveal a type of care that causes pain but is needed in order to stay healthy in the long run. On a mid-May day, I nervously handed out little tasters of weight gain shake to everyone sitting in the audience. I then waited for five minutes & proceeded to take off my clothes down to my beige-colored underwear (to signal the transition from the public to private sphere). I was shaking uncontrollably from nervousness. Once I mixed four weight gain powder packets with four glasses of milk, which added up to a total of three thousand calories, I drank all four glasses as my belly swelled with pain. Then, I got up, started putting my clothes back on, & sat on the ground. As I was putting on my shoes, I quickly grabbed the nearest garbage can to puke what I had just imbibed.
2015
Ink & acrylic on paper
A series of sixty-five works
Video documentation by Brighton Linge
Image documentation by MG Bernard
Revised: 4/15/24; 5/12/24; 5/16/24
2015: Sixty-Five Roses Challenge, Mid-City Theater, New Orleans, LA
2015: Sixty-Five Roses for Cystic Fibrosis, Amanda Sibley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
A two-month long project to raise awareness for cystic fibrosis. All funds earned from artwork sales were donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.