Part V - Steamy

And another very closely related piece to the footprints & especially water drawings...

Steam drawings – closely related to the water drawings. This is more involved in terms of set-up/construction. It is almost contrived in its set-up/materials. A window from my parents’ house is steamed and folks are invited to draw in the steam with their fingers – remember when it rained on the school bus and the windows got all steamy and you drew on them? This piece is about playing and about the marks we leave behind. Again the drawings are non-permanent & difficult to document. Again, they are wiped away by the steam or by the artist themselves. The difference in these pieces is that the ghost trails of each participant are left on the window (the oil from your hands leaves marks that do not entirely disappear after the window is steamed). This piece has presented a bit of a challenge to me b/c of materials…so, the window is surrounded by flashing – intending to keep the steam in, the steam hose which has holes drilled into it is laid across the bottom and around the right side – steam rises. The steam hose gets HOT, so there is a wooden a shelf with caution tape on it attached to the bottom of the window. Even though somewhat contrived, it worked well enough for me to be satisfied with her debut performance. I was part of a cabaret-style show (music, art, performance) and have a few pictures from this show.