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She Didn’t Have Any Arms, 2006
The performance, “She Didn’t Have Any Arms”, was created to provide a storytelling venue in which traumatic action and fragments could be presented within an eight-minute monologue. The traumatic event was witnessed as a fragmented, repeated gesture, the knitting of my dress. With each stitch I took, a wire connected to a small brother doll caused the mouth to open and shut. Positioned in front of the brother was a small sister doll whose ponytails mimicked my own in the performance. She sat motionless as the brother whispered secrets into her ear. They remain trapped in this continuous gesture while the video image projected above explores the ambiguous interior of a home.
During the second chapter of the piece, a new video emerged which presented a conversation between a sock puppet and the hand within. The sock puppet attempted to tell a joke, “Why did the little girl fall off the swing?” Answer: “She didn’t have any arms.”
