This is an ongoing series in which I’m responding to events in the world. Each short video is a combination of video art and poetry.

This is an ongoing series in which I’m responding to events in the world. Each short video is a combination of video art and poetry.

As it turns out, self-forgiveness is far more difficult than forgiving another.

This is an ongoing series in which I’m responding to events in the world. Each short video is a combination of video art and poetry.

Summary of Day 1 of Release Me performed on October 10, 2022, from 10am to 3pm.

Day one of Release Me is called Origin Stories because of its dedication to laying the foundation of my life and telling you how my generational trauma was conceived.

Summary of Day 2 of Release Me performed on October 11, 2022, from 10am to 3pm.

In various moments of my life, innocence was taken, from me and from my family. My thinking patterns form based on what was lost, and the trauma continues to form my cocoon. I see my womanhood as something to be rejected, not loved.

Summary of Day 3 of Release Me performed on October 12, 2022, from 10am to 3pm.

Time is moving, and I am still different. I dance, learn, & find my life partner. I notice, in a photograph of my mother, the happiness of a Holocaust survivor. After my mother dies, my father appreciates how my mother took care of our family.

Summary of Day 4 of Release Me performed on October 13, 2022, from 10am to 3pm.

Art is my fate. I marry. I learn to unlearn what doesn’t serve me. My mother sees death as a victory for the Nazis, so I guide her peacefully. I grieve. My cocoon is almost fully built.

Summary of Day 5 of Release Me performed on October 14, 2022, from 10am to 2pm.

I unravel my cocoon.

I see myself for the very first time. I love myself, truly love myself. I am fearless. I am kind to myself. I am a beautiful person. I feel powerful, unstoppable, excited about the future. My life’s work has come full circle. I’m proud of how committed I’ve been to getting free. Listen to what my freedom sounds like.

I perform a ritual knitting practice accompanied by a loving-kindness meditation in response to private stories of wrongdoing and forgiveness recorded by a diverse group of artists and community members.

An experimental virtual theatre piece in which ancient oracles and wise women must go into hiding to preserve their wisdom for future generations, to which modern women are called.