video installation

Strange Things

Oh, Darlin'

oblivion runs

raft

salt house

starring: part 2

Excerpt from Catalogue

Rhonda Corvese, Curator

Oh darlin, you were so dirty, that I had to plant flowers over you.

Well of course the animals can see me, in fact I've killed three bears, one was as white as an egg… but I'm not afraid of the ocean, or the cold, just the wind. By the second year I took to walking about on all fours, just like the rabbits do here, hopping about through the
woods…

Marguerite is the main character in Oh Darlin… appearing in all but two of the monologue sequences. Cooper utilizes the monologue formatto capture the psychological state of madness. Marguerite's monologuesare a disarming mix of candor, desire, folly, insistence, and vulnerability. In the narrative she reveals the desolation of her life on the island. Her thoughts and emotions are erratic. It is clear that she is mad. It is a madness inflamed by her emptiness and isolation; a madness that exposes overt and primal sexual desires.