A rebellion against the monotony of pressing your feet to the ground
2022
Dimensions Variable
Cast aluminium body fragments, beaten and forged mild steel, performer (Nikki Tarling)
Gravity renders one powerless
And endless capitulation to firm, physical -
weightlessness
Step upon step, dragging you back to the living
Crushing you into stasis
The human will to control, to assert power over ones own body -
constantly deflating
New parameters drawn by the enormity of heteronomy
An alien rule
You cannot see it
Yet it quietly spins a fine web around everything
every ounce of any spec
- You have to use your whole body -
Conjure that moment of being propelled into atmosphere
Feet taking flight
Let me take back what I am not in control of
Let me take back flight
Be held by the feeling of being thrust into space
suspended in that moment
neither pushed up or pulled down
Slow down
Slow down that moment when your body fights the pervasive rule of gravity
A rebellion against the monotony of pressing your feet to the ground
Feel your stomach in your arse and your lungs pressing against your diaphragm all at once
Focus on that feeling
The feeling of flight
The boundaries of the atmosphere, unbound
Your body fighting equal and opposite forces of gravity and levitation