the heart of the matter
| The Heart of
the Matter evolved from Burdens, Roots, and the Turning (3 periods
of performance). I was working in the Tenderloin area, where I
had an art studio, and passed my days with the wounded and forgotten. |
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After looking at
burdens and the roots, I wanted to look at attempts of healing
I saw in the streets. All day long I would see drunks, crack addicts,
dopers, smokers, drinkers, fighters, talkers, con artists, street
artists. Days of survival spent in a self medicated stupor. |
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| These are
the ways of healing of the street, and I wanted to explore other
tools of healing than alcohol, crack, drugs, razors, fists and
numbness. My emphasis in this work was on the possibility of personal
autonomy in the face of the medical and pharmaceutical codex.
What medical and pharmaceutical
codex? The codex we culturally agree
on and happily ignore. |
