my plastic love

2023 ⋮ overhead projector, photocopies, transparency film, artifacts, video

The eternal object of special devotion. A memory of a desire that is no longer possible to fulfill. Here the documentation of my greed and jealousy exists.

The only time I have ever used magic to harm another person. There is a cost to doing harm. The cost is not always apparent, and it may not be immediate. There is always a cost. The intent and exectution both form the body of the ritual, created to focus the energy of desire and obsession, to change established lines of fate. Unexpected results occur when attempting to force an outcome.

What I desire is now in mine, but it is not the same as the original. The body has become a copy of a copy of a copy, preserved in plastic.

The video is made from animated photocopy manipulations, and live poetry performed with an overhead projector. Ritual artifacts make an appearance, as well as allusions to the sequence of events.