The Heavy Bodies of

Debt. It’s that spidery little tingle-inducing word—and not the good kind―that comes just before a shudder suppresses that thought. Yet with so many of us facing it due to blindingly high-rising tuition, it’s a nearly inescapable part of student life.

In a city where the streets seem to shrink with the ever-watching eye of the media and the frantic pace of the workers and dwellers, how do two women escape the social mirror of their imperfections? My work is based on the realization that the fear of crowds, of the outside world; agoraphobia, (cocooning for the more modern minds) seems to take hold of more and more people nowadays.

A circular cloth lies flat in the middle of the stage. Slowly, it begins to turn at the edge. A revolving wooden circle with a hollow centre is revealed as the source of this motion. The cloth is abandoned by the rotating circle, but recuperated by a shape that takes form underneath malleable walls.