ontology of the wedding dress

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ontology, n.
a. Philos. The science or study of being; that branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature or essence of being or existence.
ontology of the wedding dress. The scene: A personal- size theater. A self-portrait: my wedding dress, myself in the dress and the removal of myself from my wedding dress. The use of rich red curtains represents passion, love, blood, and deception. The lost painting of Leda and the Swan by Leonardo daVinci inspired the theater backdrop. The story of Leda and the swan in classic mythology is such that Zeus appeared to Leda in the form of a swan and seduced her. Trumpeter Swans, some consider the “wedding bird”, are birds that mate for life. I am intrigued by the duality that occurs with the use of the swan -Zeus appearing to Leda as a swan and a common belief that swans mate for life. This duality is of the utmost importance regarding the concept of this piece.
The image: a husband and wife, a projection of a photo negative from my own wedding that has never been printed. The use of the ephemeral in regards to the projection of something that could have existed, did exist, or no longer exists is the question. The gesture, is it fear, a realization of the deception? Or is it the importance of that moment, the moment of who I am and what I am that creates the subject-object obfuscation. This leads to the separation of the subject–object. This separation leads to the question of what is subject and what is object. The sense of being: the dress is removed- and what is the dress once I remove myself from it. The marriage no longer exists; my interest therein lies in the societal haunting of my placement.

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