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 Bridge Print Series-

50 prints, numbered out of 50 and signed of each image I selected from "The Bridge" installation/performance piece.

I have altered nearly all of the original images in some way- either in relatively minor ways like saturation adjustment and color balancing, to some subtle "painting" over them in semi-transparent layers in Photoshop, to actual obvious digital montage and alteration.

I really enjoy these as prints- they have taken on their own life as work distinct from the actual performance. I very much appreciate the effect of arranging them together in different relationships- creating new associations and narratives.

as a triptych-

this tryptic suddenly becomes chronological, has the complete cycle...

as a diptych-