The performance series represented an exploration of feminine rights of passage through live movement, sculptural costumes and film sequences.
    Four material elements were used as metaphors for each season:

glass  -- summer --  the dress of birth
leaves  -- fall --  the dress of childhood and exploration
sticks  -- winter --  the dress of adolescence and making choices
stones  -- spring --  the dress of maturity and assurance

The Dress of Bottles was contructed of glass bottles that were wired to a chicken wire frame made in the shape of a generic 'A-Line' dress. The headdress was made of antique vicks and milk of magnesia bottles that I'd found at a yard sale. Bracelets were made of beach-washed glass fragments.

The performace began with the dress hanging on chains and me moving it from inside. Later I released its chains and freely propelled the clanking mass throughout the space.