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Where the Greenbelt Meets the Ohio
Medium: Performance (Photos for documentation only)
Materials: Arches paper, black ink, cast iron skillet, audio
Location: Visual Art Research Center, Storrs, CT
Date: Saturday October 13, 2018
Duration: 3 hours
Where the Greenbelt Meets the Ohio is a performance in which I listen to an audio recording of my maternal grandmother retell the accounts of her first marriage. My grandmother, exclaims “He came home drunk and tried to hit me, so I grabbed the cast iron skillet, which was the closest thing I could grab, and hit him upside the head. I grabbed the kids and left. I never went back.”
While the recording played, I dipped a cast iron skillet in black ink and repeatedly slammed the skillet onto the wall, lined in arches paper. In the process, I broke the handle and cut my knuckles, allowing the blood to smear as it might on the paper. The marks left on paper serve as residue of the performance.