Disappeared

Performance with video projection and drawing, 2012

Disappeared, a trilogy of drawings performed with video is the first iteration of a larger long-term project. Each drawing is a portrait of a woman who has vanished from Los Angeles County-based on their missing persons photo. The work honors the memory of these three women while underscoring the fact that women and girls of all ages and ethnicities in varied locations continue to vanish, often the result of a violent act and in many cases remaining a complete mystery.

In the performance, the video begins as a complete image that slowly erases itself. I enter into the projection and draw over the projected drawing to generate a new portrait. The drawing and erasure process represents the presence and loss of these lives. For a moment, through marks made on a page, these three women are remembered.

Each portrait includes an audio track recorded at the general location* where each woman was last seen alive and a reading of their “vital statistics” including the scarce bit of information on the circumstances of their disappearance.

*except Angelina

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