looking into the void

Covid lockdown was the abrupt end to Adelaide fringe where I was performing with Blunderland. We closed out the festival as one of the last shows to go on to an audience made up mostly of other artists. It was March 2020 and everything got weird, remember? After over 40 hours of travel I returned to a New York with no sounds other than ambulances, followed by weeks of fireworks and then a helicopter at my window. As horrible as it was I thought surely humanity would reset and embrace solidarity. Our collective values were sure to shift towards compassion.

Needless to say I was wrong. In those dark days without theater, a loss of faith in human nature and a feeling of having lost my purpose I has no inspiration. My overactive imagination felt like a desolate void, I looked inside and saw nothing. That’s where I decided to look into “the void” and tried to extract something. It feels like I’m still searching.

Here are some of the early “extractions”