absence of body

Gesture. Erasure. Trace. What remains when the body withdraws.

This series was made 1993-1994. I didn’t have the language for it then, but I was already working with absence- with presence as residue, repetition, and refusal.

I didn’t call it feminist, or material, or performative.

But it was.

It still is.

These selected works are part of that early inquiry. They remain unfinished, uncaptioned, and open.

I’m not remaking this work. I’m refusing to forget it.

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‘I use time as a material to be shaped or manipulated. I’ve incorporated change into my work through the acceptance of natural scales of time, the rate of waves breaking, the rate at which sand buries, the slow time of deterioration.’

‘Placing the work in an alternative context creates an active interrelationship. The waves, the sand, and the wind changed the work physically and changed my perception of it. The relationship became active.’

‘Through my work, I am attempting to express the impermanence of reality regarding the self. As this is active, so too must be the representation, the art.’

Page, T. (1994). Absence of Body [series] (p. 1-4).