IF YOU FORGET ME

If You Forget Me was a performance piece where I signaled lines from the poem by Pablo Neruda using semaphore. I stood in a place that once provided connection: limestone from the quarry had been used to build the suspension bridge between Michigan’s two peninsulas in the 1950s. At the end of the piece, I threw my form of communication onto the frozen lake below, removing my ability to signal again. It’s a piece about remembering, longing, and how that feeling remains long after communication ends.

Stills from If You Forget Me. Duration: 3 minutes, 30 seconds