Diminish: Soap

Endurance performance, 2019

In Diminish: Soap, I lather two bars of lye soap against one another until they both dissipate under the constant pressure of my hand motion.

This performance is part of Simple Actions, a series that explores the meditative possibilities of domestic labor. Many of my actions reflect a Sisyphean futility, a repetition that renders minimal production. I perform each act in an abandoned industrial site, a place of male-dominance in the global West. My bodily presence, and my reference to traditionally female roles, opens a dialog that centers upon gender, history, location, and our common desires for what is unattainable, and continually elusive.