Celery Laughing, 2019

Celery, laughter, digital video

Celery Laughing was performed in contrast to The Impossibility of Empathy seven years after its production.

 

The Impossibility of Empathy, 2012

seven year old cigarette, hand-built ceramic urn, tears, desert

Anza Borrego Springs Desert, CA

Performance video stills.

Seven years after her death, I finished smoking my mother’s last cigarette while ashing into a ceramic urn I had hand-built for the occasion.