Self-Restraint,
Video performance, 2014

My performance Self-Restraint reveals the internal struggle that marks my daily life as a woman. I begin the cathartic performance by tying the rope around my torso. I tie it around my body four times, holding the ends; I have wrapped the rope tightly around my own hands so that I cannot escape its grip. The work is self-inflicted, self-imposed, and self-determined. I can choose to unwrap myself or choose to tighten the rope and fight against its restraint. I pull as tight as I can on the rope until I am exhausted. I unwrap myself from the rope and let the rope fall to the floor.