We gather around fire in an act of communion.
We gather around fire in an act of creation and destruction.
We gather around fire to cleanse ourselves.
Fire. Burning. Ashes.
Leaching ashes creates Lye. This highly basic solution is used to make soap.
We use soap to cleanse ourselves of the muck we wade through daily.
In the spirit of cleansing I burned my shoes till only charcoal remained.
Rubber soles burned a green flame. Laces licked by blaze.
Shoes are a personal vice. As a woman they are the means by which I perform my gender and personality. As a consumer they are the means by which I exhibit commercial excess. As a Jew these empty shoes and ashes refer to the dark history of the Holocaust.
I used the coal to create graphic, dark, miniature minimalistic monuments.
Soap.
My soap is soft and smooth to the touch, which appears to be glass, marble, or stone.
It is simultaneously absent and present. Hefty and toxic. Disintegrable and cleansing.
We gather around fire in an act of creation and destruction.
We gather around fire to cleanse ourselves.
Fire. Burning. Ashes.
Leaching ashes creates Lye. This highly basic solution is used to make soap.
We use soap to cleanse ourselves of the muck we wade through daily.
In the spirit of cleansing I burned my shoes till only charcoal remained.
Rubber soles burned a green flame. Laces licked by blaze.
Shoes are a personal vice. As a woman they are the means by which I perform my gender and personality. As a consumer they are the means by which I exhibit commercial excess. As a Jew these empty shoes and ashes refer to the dark history of the Holocaust.
I used the coal to create graphic, dark, miniature minimalistic monuments.
Soap.
My soap is soft and smooth to the touch, which appears to be glass, marble, or stone.
It is simultaneously absent and present. Hefty and toxic. Disintegrable and cleansing.
