The Road to the Fiery Temple/Pyromaniac

This work is a documented performance shaped by my long connection to fire. 

As a child I spent every summer in a pine forest where thunderstorms and wildfires were constant, and my fascination with electricity and burning wood became part of how I understood nature.For this performance I made a path from a silver spring, through a charred forest of looped trunks once revered by the Curonians, to a temple I built from a tree destroyed by lightning. Inside this temple I let my body perform a ceremony addressed to trance, to the dead fathers of the forest, and to fire itself.I work with fire as with a sculptural tool: it carves voids, scatters ashes, stains matter black, and leaves a structure defined by what has been taken away. 

The performance records how fire strips, empties, and transforms, while my body inhabits that same process of loss and renewal.

Presented at Culture as a Dare festival.