Analysis of burning mirror in relation to 'the Performance of Self'
In devising the piece I was concerned with creating an action that both explored my research questions (how to make a performance of selfhood or autobiography) in relation to the previous work eyeless, and functioned successfully within the event context for which it was commissioned.

At first I thought it would mean a negative, reductive compromise to the work in having to build it into the framework of an event already planned – that my work would have to subsume itself under an external set of meanings and irrelevant context. It occurred to me however, that all public work, all interventions or creative actions must lodge into contexts external to the original impetus for the work. This is to say unless the work is SITE SPECIFIC from the outset.

I started to consider the event within which my work would take place to be a necessary housing, encasing – to a degree limiting but not so restrictive the work couldn't happen. At certain times it is productive to work within limits and can lead to new directions, cause new readings of the work to happen. Finally, I concluded, the importance of manifesting my ideas, the bringing of a new piece into actuality would further my research and the development of my project.