Pentagram Of Loss (Adult Content)
FRIDAY OCT 24th - OPENING RECEPTION AND PERFORMANCE OF Pentagram Of Loss
Pinky/MM Bass and Reneé Cheveallier
PENTAGRAM OF LOSS
I have had a recurring image about the five people (my son, my only sister, both my parents and Kitty Couch, artist/collaborator) who died over a period of five years. The image was of them forming a pentagram or star with their bodies while I continued to crochet a kind of umbilical chord. Our bodies are made of clay. This piece is about the fragility of the human body, the space of loss and our inner-connectedness. We are left with only traces.
I began collaborating with the dancer and performance artist, Reneé Cheveallier, in 2005 when our mutual friend, Donna Service, unexpectedly died just weeks before she and I were scheduled to do a performance piece in New Orleans, LA. Reneé agreed to work with me in her place and in fact the whole exhibition was renamed For Donna. Since that time Reneé and I have continued to work together on performance pieces by "long distance" as I live in Fairhope, AL and she in Shreveport, LA. Although the basis for this piece came from my initial recurring imagery, the development and form of the performance and resulting installation were created collaboratively as we explored the implications of the ideas and movements that would best express those thoughts.
