I. I Love You But I Have to Leave.
I Love You But I Have to Leave.
Growing up in one country, being shaped by its culture, heritage and language. The audience coming in and pouring glue on me like how the culture come in life and shape us. When I was kneeling and in prayer pose, my legs were completely numb, but I had to stay in the position for an hour. Then I tried to stand up, like how the immigrants have to break out of their own culture to be able to move to a new country.
II. LEAVE A MARK ON I.
Leave A Mark on I.
When arriving into a new country, we try to take in and learn as much as possible about the new country. The two performers exchanging clothes, hugging, like exchanging culture and trying them on. After all clothes stayed on one person, like a burden, with the marks from the body paints on the garments.
III. AREN’T WE ALL CONFUSED?
Aren’t We All Confused?
Once we realized we cannot just put on a new culture and be a new person, we realized we are stuck between two countries, so we have to break ourselves then remake ourselves. Pulling the garments on two sides, cutting them apart then retying them together, it is like breaking and remaking ourselves, even though we are still something in between.
IV. I HAVE BECOME ME NOW.
I Have Become Me Now.
At the end, we have to make peace with ourselves. From the first performer, she passed down one garment at a time, then all the other performers trying it on, then passing it down, until the last performer weaved them into a loom. The garments came from fabrics, but by weaving the garments they won’t turn back to fabric. After what immigrants experience, we cannot go back to how we were, but we are not the new country too, but it is okay, as the performers trying on the woven garments, we are a community, and it is okay.
