Goodnight Bear, 2007
Duration: 25:00
live performance
Goodnight Bear tells a tale about the overlapping lives of my father and myself. As I project old family photos and paintings onto me, I allow the audience to see into the numerous parts of the selves that make up mine and my fathers identities. Our history is literally revealed through the weaving of stories that I remember being told to me, as well as memories from the past that have never left me. I am interested in how the relationship between a father and his child function to form a unique dichotomy. Goodnight Bear depicts the idea of my father and I pushing and pulling into and out of one another to form a creature that lies somewhere within a series of moments from times past.
