hold/ascending

The work involved placing a statue of the Virgin Mary at the front of the room surrounded by hyacinth bulbs in dirt. I created a line of milk bags on the floor, pierced them with a knife, and walked in them wearing my mother’s slip and white formal shoes in order to create small, fountain-like milk eruptions. Upon reaching the end of the line, I lay down in the milk bags, making a relationship between the line of spilled milk and my spine. I drank the last bag of milk with outstretched arms.

University of Toronto
2008

Photos by Lorna Bauer