Viva Vita Dolorosa (2016)

A processional performance featuring a Cinderella-like figure, a footman, and a white draft horse pulling a transformed Amish carriage.

 

At first glance, the scene echoes a familiar fairy tale. But look closer, and the illusion frays. What once promised enchantment begins to smolder. The carriage—armored with twisted steel, thorns, scorched roses, and broken glass—moves through the street like a specter from another world.

 

This is not a celebration, but a lament. A quiet pageant of grief wrapped in the remnants of fantasy.

 

Viva Vita Dolorosa is a meditation on transformation—the fragile line between myth and memory, beauty and burden.

It asks us to consider what remains after the story ends.

 

Where myth slips into memory,

sorrow wears a crown of thorns.