Sabbath Moon (part 2)
the book, the performance, and the event that started it all

Though Sabbath Moon was not written until 1979-1985, it has always seemed to be connected to or involved with the work I did during 1976 coming to terms with the death of my aunt Barbara Thomas Doerffer. During this time I did a series of self-studies by audio-visual means, culminating in the Trinity Church performance in October 1976.

This 8-hour performance during which I changed costume and persona 4 times was photographed by Angelo Sgabellone, Robert Lariviere and Carment Lamana. There were over 500 colored slides as well as black and white photographs of that performance. A few pictures were included in the final issue of Queen Stree t Magazine 1997-98 and then they were packed away for a long while.

In the writing of Sabbath Moon I became aware of the correlation between certain images and characters at Trinity and the voices I heard as I wrote. Still I did not know how to fit them all together and create a coherent whole.

After the production of Cabaret Vert Magazine in 1991 I began to realize that I would need to create some new work for the Alice Springs Project report which formed the center part of each magazine. The ASP will be documented separately so I will not go into to it here except to say that it was a body of work that was like a science in the survey and analysis of langugage fields or poetic texts. This in complete contrast to the Trinity and related work I referred to as Psychic Realism.

So in 1991 I began to produce new work for the ASP which incorporated some of the imagery of the Psychic Realism work. The two theretofore separate areas in which I did my artwork were now having a conversation. It was out of that experience, during those years in the early 90's that I developed my visual sensibility in terms of what my pictures would be.

The Trinity performance was Part II of a body of work I called The Southern Cult. It was subtitled: Blood, Fire, and Dance: Witchwife and was influenced by and reflected as well my heritage, family roots, death and loss of family. I will share this in the near future.
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