Video Stills

The Truth of Lineage

Dual Channel Video
2007

I used the process of crying to further explore a means of preservation through shared actions via an internalizing of the ‘other’.  In The Work of Mourning Derrida writes, “[…] ever since psychoanalysis came to mark this discourse, the image commonly used to characterize mourning is that of an interiorization (an idealizing incorporation, introjection, consumption of the other […].” There was a comfort that somewhere in all of this, she would be with me as a literal take on Derrida’s concern with the singularity of death: “Derrida has been concerned with the relationship between the singularity of death and its inevitable repetition, with what it means to reckon with death, or with the dead, with all those who were once close to us but who are no longer, as we say “with us”, or who are “with us” only insofar as they are “in us”.”