Project
Restriction and Freedom
Garment / Performance art / Performance
A body enters relation with force, resists, falls, pauses, and stands again. Restriction becomes the condition through which freedom is perceived, pursued, and finally neutralized.
Statement
We are born into a world of countless social expectations. Then we begin to crawl, then walk, slowly sensing the world through the body. At first, our awareness of these restrictions is not profound. As we grow, they become increasingly clear.
The more we resist, the more visible they become.
The more we resist, the more intense they become.
Until… we fall.
Yet in that fall, we are given a moment to stop.
After rigorous contemplation, I stand up again, finding a new way to coexist with restriction. By utilizing restriction, I reach a state that the body alone could not achieve, and gain access to a broader world.
Restriction and freedom coexist.
Restriction creates the desire for freedom.
Freedom, in turn, creates the desire for restriction.
I stand at the threshold between the two,
neutralizing desire.
Restriction and freedom are, in essence, one.
All things in the world are one.
I,
dissolve the self,
and exist together with all things.
Sequence
