DESCRIPTION:
A performer stands in a gallery wearing a bathing suit, mittens and a wool overcoat with a swimcap, snorkel and goggles. Bending over to keep her head submerged in a fishtank filled with water, she watches slowly dissolving video images of distant, snow-crested mountains through the tank's glass bottom. The reflections and refractions caused by the glassy surfaces of tank, monitor and water cause her face and what she sees (the video mountains) to become visually detatched from her body which remains a solid, sculptural presence in the gallery space. A shift in scale occurs as viewers approach, first encountering the exteriority of a concrete, performing body, then coming intimitely close and entering the illusionistic space inside the tank as they too become reflected there. In another area of the gallery, a video shows the same performer sitting cross-legged on the floor with an anchor in her lap, holding one end of a rope which appears to issue from beyond the top edge of the video frame.