Above: Gaea in performance - Bed of Dust, 1986

Documentation recorded during a 3-hour live performance installation based on the Greek myth, the birth of The Furies.

The classic form of Greek narrative based in ancient oral tradition dissolves into "tea party" chatter. The 'forever birthing' image of the goddess Gaea, Mother Earth, is represented by the image of the woman in the dust-laden bed.

The piece is based on two aspects of T I M E. The material sense of real time in the duration of the piece captured by time-lapse camera, and M E M O R Y, as spiritual time portrayed by Gaea's daughter, Mnemosyne (in white wedding dress), who steals things and speaks a eulogy to her brother, Chronus, while on the mountain (ladder).