You, beauty
2005, live performance, recorded sound, handmade mask, red cord and fabric,
7 minutes
Presented at MobiusLive: SLAY, March 16, 2025, Lilypad, Cambridge, MA
NACHMO Boston, April 3, 2026, The Foundry, Cambridge, MA

You, beauty is a live performance that brings to life an otherworldly trickster and monstrous feminine being. Taking inspiration from organisms including amoebas, insects, and spiders, the being's amorphous, slippery, shape-shifting qualities celebrate bodily autonomy and the body's rejection of being contained and controlled.
The piece casts a spell: one part exorcism, one part love letter. Delivered through vocals and relayed through red cord that extends from the mouth to the audience, the spell seeks to disentangle beauty from aesthetics to the magnificent resilience of becoming.




