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project description End of the World (Cape Point), 2004

Cape Point, at the southern tip of South Africa, was once believed to be the place where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet. It is one of those places that reminds us of our transience. End of the World (Cape Point) is a visual echo of that exchange. At Cape Point, I sensed, in a moment of intense spiritual awareness, the meeting between mortality and immortality.

The end of the world, like a thief in the night, can come at any moment. It cannot be owned or known yet, paradoxically, it is solid, ever-present, for the end is included in ‘now and forever’. There can be no doubt that the end of anything has an attraction and beauty of its own; a calm inevitability, or the promise of renewal.

more/cry (after Bas Jan Ader, I’m Too Sad to Tell You, 1971, black & white film)
New York, United States
Mpeg movies edited and written to DVD
Variable dimensions
Installed at the Museum for African Art, New York
2004

Why do we cry? And when the tears dry up, what then? While many of us shy away from exhibiting our grief publicly, I documented my emotional outbursts in the wake of a traumatic divorce. Then a while later, after having slightly healed, I watched myself dispassionately. more/cry is a dialogue between two versions of the same self, experiencing and observing the cathartic effects of weeping.