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    Embodiment
    (2014) Pierce, Hilary
    Spirituality comes to me most easily through music. This project is a representation of how music has inspired me to move as a performing artist, and how that movement in turn has inspired me to create forms that complement and enrich those performances. I think of my work as belonging to a particular landscape, to a time and place or to a particular someone, as if I interpret an obscure and intense mysticism by giving it tangible form. All of my work is designed with the intent that a human should be its context, embodying and being embodied by all of the little constituent parts that build the ensemble. The human presence has always been an intuitive necessity for me—without a sentient face and meaningful, expressive movement to contextualize my pieces I tend to lose interest. By adorning myself with my work when I perform I convey a very specific meaning to my audiences—and my movement in turn influences how viewers perceive the pieces I’ve made. To display my smaller work in the stationary gallery setting I thought to substitute mass for movement, to create a monolith that would demonstrate how the pieces could be used to create a presence. But once I made the massive cloak, I knew I must try to dance in it—and once I danced in it I knew I needed a headdress. One idea spawned another, and what had once been a collection of only very little things changed drastically. When I had this new ensemble I decided to create the face and gesture of the mythological figure whom I would normally be using these vestments to embody on stage.