Collaborating with Rose, 2014—2015

Collaborating with Rose

Many Fingered Magical Princess, 2014, one day performance

Collaborating with Rose

Tapestry Translation, 2014, one day performance

Collaborating with Rose

Big Face Girl, 2014, one day performance

Collaborating with Rose

Zombie Tractor, 2014, one day performance

Collaborating with Rose

Rabbit Cloud in a Sunshiny Sky, 2014, one day performance

Collaborating with Rose

Long Legs Lady, 2015, one day performance

Collaborating with Rose

Pink Dress Lady, 2015, one day performance

Collaborating with Rose

Mermaid, 2015, one day performance

My niece Rose draws prolifically, and unbeknownst to her, I have used her drawings as instructions and attempted to recreate these in the real world.

To ensure a spontaneity to match that of the initial act, each drawing becomes a one day project where corners are cut, substitutes used and ad hoc solutions resorted to.

My collaborator is less than predictable. She fails to comply with my self-imagined collaboration and instead produces unanticipated images and coerces undertakings not of my choosing. Rose becomes, in my mind, the small capricious czar and I, subject to her whims.