Paul Wallace, OSSIFY – performance
21/12/2010
In early November, in downtown LA, I had a live performance-piece at the Miah Studio. Full documentation here. This is a still from the performance. Covered from head-to-toe in white kaolin clay, I mixed plaster into buckets sitting on a zebra skin rug. A rope stretched 14′ from a box in the center of the rug to the I-beams in the ceiling. I attached the mixed plaster buckets to my harness, then climbed the rope. Working from the top down, I applied the plaster, ossifying the rope, turning it into a 14′ bone. The piece is now a permanent installation in the space.