Ruby Waage Townsend
Propped Up
The curtains open and the performer is performing, pleasing, ready to be dissected, to be critiqued, a window, the room, makeup and wigs and perfume, all smiles but cold light, glaring light, burning lights, observing lights, until the curtain is drawn.
Adapting, transforming, becoming, wishing to be; surviving, existing, transcending
Do you inhabit the clothes or do they support;
Support, tolerate, bear
Rumpled on the floor
Uninhabited
Focusing on a narrative sense of escapism, imposing works that explore trauma through theatricality, dualism and multiple identities, delving into both life as art and ancestral heritage, here I navigate the complexities of the human psyche both in experiencing life as a whole and overcoming ordeals such as emotional abuse and bullying.
Much of my ongoing work is reliant on self-analysis and being hyper aware, drawing in multiple elements of lived experience and story-telling, an ongoing exploration of identity as I re-discover my own.