It's hard to keep your head above the coffee table,
Video Performance, 2014

In this video performance, I am pinned to the floor by an upturned coffee table. One by one, rocks are placed on the table, and gradually the weight becomes unbearable. I hold this weight with my body until the facilitators remove the boulders.

I have never weighed the rocks or the coffee table. The burdens we carry—physically and metaphorically—are not always measured. We know we must endure and persist until, eventually, the weight becomes bearable. This work is a meditative performance on carerhood: not only care for the self, but also for the other. I reflect on how I use my body—take it for granted, perform it, endure it, abuse it, and display it. I endure it. There is no clear beginning or end. It is a process, a cycle without conclusion.