My work, “The Center Will Not Hold” was PERFORMED ON SITE AT THE ANNENBERG COMMUNITY BEACH HOUSE as part of: Swept Way: Love Letters to a Surrogate, organized by
Warren Neidich, Christina Mossaides Strassfield, Anuradha Vikram and Rene Petropoulos 2022-23
“Swept Away: Love Letter to a Surrogate/s” is a community oriented artistic project that aims to create a transcontinental heartbeat across America. It is hoped that through its combined gestures and performances, a sense of solidarity, so desperately missing today, will emerge with which to confront the ecological catastrophe at our doorstep.”
65 Los Angeles County artists presented live performances over Earth Day Weekend: April 22 and 23, 2023 at the Santa Monica State Beach near the Annenberg Community Beach House on the Pacific Ocean. “The Center Will Not Hold” was one of them.
Stills from “The Center Will Not Hold”: gathering the water, stitching the sand.
Collaborators: Deborah Lynn Irmas and Frida Cano.
Image Credit: Mick Lorusso April 2023 Three Women Gather Water Working Silently Together
Image Credit: Mick Lorusso April 2023 Carrying Water to the Blanket of the Four Directions
Image Credit: Mick Lorusso April 2023 Making Their Way to the Blanket of the Fuur Directions Site
Image Credit: Mick Lorusso April 2023 Water is Used to Dampen The Sand To Create Mounds
Image Credit: Mick Lorusso April 2023 Needles Threaded With Hemp Cord Are Used To Stitch
Image Credit: Mick Lorusso April 2023 Through the Sand Mounds Creating Lines of Connection
Image Credit: Mick Lorusso April 2023 Hemp Cords Are Threaded Across the Open Circle
Image Credit: Mick Lorusso April 2023 The Center Is Stitched as is the Sand Around the Blanket
Image Credit: Mick Lorusso April 2023 The Work of Mending is Completed for the Moment
Image Credit: Mick Lorusso April 2023 The Work is Never Done on This Earth and in This Life