Bodies, Buckets and Transcendence | 2022
Performance as research, making as thinking. 

Role
Concept Development & Ideation, Collaborator, Creative Direction, Designer, Performer

Photographed by The Sisters Elefterin

At the crack of dawn, with a bucket in hand, I began to walk in search of water and in search for myself. Once I found water and the bucket was full I became intimately aware of the physicality of my pilgrimage; the weight of the water, the edges of the bucket, and my body as it held the heaviness. Through this project, I explore the codependent relationship between body and tool, melding one into the other.

Where does the water in my tap come from?    
Can I wander towards the source of life,

In my place of home, across the ocean, men and women embark on a pilgrimage to the holy rivers of India. Here, the water body is thought of as a site for birth, death and eventually rebirth. As I try to cleanse my spirit, I also search for water, and in the process hope to find myself.

To Allan Wexler,
Thank you for your poetry, it allowed me to tell my own story. 

[ Research under the Guidance of Allan Wexler, Designer + Architect ]