The Our Lady of Sorrows Project is a visual art and performance installation collaboratively created by Goddard College MFA-IA students Malley Weber & Amy Woodruff. The project addresses issues of grief, loss, and mourning using archetypes that are feminine and universal. Specifically, these issues consist of the traumatic death of family, lost loves, divorce, the trauma of natural disaster, and the illness of depressive disorder. Archetypes used in the project include the Tarot, early 19th century mourning traditions, and incarnations of the Catholic Mary and her Voudou counterpart Ezili Freda. Other themes include: tears and weeping as aspects of the water element and symbols of rain, rebirth, and fertility; and clay as earth, digging, unearthing, revealing and exposing of underlying pain and grief, and building and rebuilding, and the transformation of entities. The spectators are invited to enter the space of the visual art and performers (who will appear as living works of visual art).
Malley Weber is a clay artist and performer based in Maine, and Amy Woodruff is a performer, fabric artist/costumer, and media projection artist from Louisiana. All these forms will be woven together in this intermedia project. Amy and Malley are also roommates at Kilpatrick Dorm, woot-woot.
Past performances of the Our Lady of Sorrows Project:
- Harlow Gallery (10.16.2009 - 10.17.2009, 7:00 pm) | 160 Water Street | Hallowell, Maine
- Manor Lounge at Goddard College (Debut: 07.26.2009, 8:30 pm) | 123 Pitkin Road | Plainfield, Vermont
Links of Interest:
Malley Weber's clay artist & studio site: www.hallowellclayworks.com
Amy Woodruff's personal artist page: www.amywoodruff.com
Woodruff's experimental videos, including three that relate to OLSP: www.vimeo.com/AmyWoodruff
All photographic images used on this webpage are the property of the Maine-Louisiana/Weepy-Creepy Alliance and may not be used without consent.
Pictured on this page: Amy Woodruff as The Mourning Lady, and Malley Weber as The Bride in the "Our Lady of Sorrows Project."