Path Web Choice
Enveloping site-specific sculpture and performance by Midori
Artist's Statement

Opening Night Party and Performances: Friday, January 6, 2006. 7pm - 10pm
Installation viewable during gallery hours of Thursday through Sun, noon - 6pm
Come and tear it down! Closing / Demolition party: Thur Jan 19, 8pm

Where: Femina Potens Gallery,
465 South Van Ness, San Francisco CA 94103 (at 16th St. in the Mission) Tel. 415-217-9340 www.feminapotens.com femina_potens@yahoo.com

Come and take a walk on the path.
Enter the world beyond the path.
The choices are yours. All yours. It's always been yours.

Description:
The guest enters a long, gradually spiraling white hallway. It's very tall, narrow and clean. The floor below crunches like a well-manicured gravel path. Along the way there are small holes in the walls where she can see beyond the wall. These are placed a bit too high or bit too low for comfort. There are a few slits along the way where she can exit the path to enter the space beyond the path. At the end of the path is a small cul-de-sac. If the guest chooses to enter the space beyond the path, she will enter into a chaotic, dark forest made of tightly woven rope. Small tunnels, like paths created by a giant ground spider lead her through a maze. At points there will be objects that appear to be cocooned people. During the hours of interactive performances, Midori, as the weaver will create and web silently in methodical motions. Guests who choose to sit or stand still for extended periods in the web space may be woven silently into the creation. (Information on how they consent and how they will be 'released' will be posted before the entry.)

This is not a wheel chair accessible experience

Intentions:
Each day we make dozens and hundreds of choices, often without awareness. Choices we make determine the environments we live in. We choose our own reality. In experiencing art, we each choose the level of involvement and how art will affect, or not affect, our lives. Some people make conscious choices to make their lives into art.

We choose with each step.

Some choices…
We may choose a controlled, clean, predictable and confined world.
We may choose to consider and peek at the unknown.
We may choose to enter into the unknown and chaotic.
We may choose creation at the risk of destruction.

To make a conscious choice often creates distress and discomfort. The physical environment that we choose directly affects our emotional states, which in turn affects the next decision. The conscious act of the guest becomes motion in the space, and that in turn is part of the whole art piece. Decision and action consciously made by the participant blends with the creation of the artist. By entering into the artwork, the guest has the potential to experience what the artist was feeling. Two strangers, the artist and the guest, thereby become intimate in that experience - perhaps even to connect briefly. Connection to another soul, and weaving together of experiences, seems to be a constant human search.