performance and video
Sarah Hollis Perry
Rachel Perry Welty
Performance Still,
Santa Fe Art Institute
Unravelling, 2005
This ongoing project was started in 1999. I knit the line only when traveling. It has grown to over 200 feet in length. It was first performed in Boston, Massachusetts, then in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Charlotte, North Carolina, and at Spoleto, Charleston, South Carolina.
Erasure, 2008, Playmobil, baking flour, vacuum cleaner.
In this performance at Louisiana Tech University School of Art, Rachel Perry Welty sifts flour over an array of Playmobil figures and objects which she then lifts, revealing a drawing. I then remove the work created by my daughter.
Sweet Onions, 2008. Underscoring the complex relationship of mother and daughter and offering an oblique comment on collaboration between the two, Sarah Hollis Perry and Rachel Perry Welty simultaneously deliver a version of the same family recipe.
Sweet Onions
Erasure
Drawing a line with the tide
Production still from Drawing a line with the tide, 2011,
Rachel Perry Welty and Sarah Hollis Perry.
Unravelling
In transit: yellow line
Sarah Hollis Perry
Yellow Line, 2006
Sarah Hollis Perry
Yellow Line, 2006
Performance still, Boston, 1999
Sarah Hollis Perry, Rachel Perry Welty Performance Stills, Yellow Line, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 2011
These photographs document a performance where I, the mother, unravel a sweater knit by my mother and worn by my daughter. In the process of pulling out the stitches, one by one, I eliminate what was once lovingly and laboriously created. As the daughter is literally unwrapped, the knitted covering is quickly reduced to a pile of scrap.
