Identity Tapestry test run 9/07
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Installation and Performance
Identity Tapestry
test run 9/07
The Bridge
It was a vigil, a contemplation, a meditation within time and labor.
It was a transition between chaos and order, and an idea into tangible reality.Formlessness into form, which then unravels into formlessness again.
It is a cycle of creation and destruction, and the liminal space between them.
It is a an exploration of definition, process, and a meditation of all these things.
Process-The physical installation and performance itself was
done in Boston, Mass. Conceived in January of 2002,
I began the physical work on the Bridge that March.
The performance spanned over 7 weeks between the
end of March and the beginning of May that year.The walls were completely covered in canvas, the floor
covered in wool. I made the wall itself into a loom,
and the pile of loose wool that I spun became a weaving
that first went over the painting and then into it.
Eventually I cut the weaving from the wall, allowing it
to unravel and dissolve back into loose wool. Then I
wrapped myself inside of it, still spinning.Over the last 2 years I have selected photos frames
many taken to work on through Photoshop to create
the prints you see, each of which has become its own
individual piece. This work became another form of
painting for me. Even the printing was an artistic
process of its own with many subtle adjustments.
What you see is the fruit of a very long and diverse
labor, and the beginning of an entirely new path in
my artistic process and work.-Mary Corey March
Oct., 8 2004
main photography collaborator: Hans Schröder
The Journey, Witnessed
This piece was done as a way of showing some part of my meditation experiences to others in a visual way. The painting itself was done in oil and reads as womb-like, though some people also perceive a struggle in the form- a beating of fists. Both are integral to the experience.
I chose a location that I would feel comfortable meditating or "going Out" in, and wove the painting into the environment with thread I had color-mixed, carded and spun myself. I then went through all the external motions of my meditation, leaving the imagery in the painting and wool to translate some of the internal experience.
Materials- oil on canvas, spun thread, artist, the Boston Arboretum.
I am currently sorting and adjusting images from this piece to create another print series.
main photography collaborator: Hans Schröder
Artist's Note- Hans is a photographer whose attention to detail and shared aesthetic sense with me help to make him an ideal collaborator in performance projects. We tend to notice the same tiny things in a given scene- the texture of the door's surface, or the angle of a tree in relation to a figure. Sharing this sense and automatically working well together as friends has made us an excellent team. Often with the photos that I am not in myself, we cannot tell who took the photograph. While we now live on different coasts, I hope to continue to work with him.
