Aleatoric Part 1:
Performance

“Using mineral pigments, mud, charcoal, milk paint, and rainwater, Ellen Rutt engages in a physically demanding process of pulling, pushing, dragging, and crawling-gestures that express a range of raw, imperfect emotions. During the seven-hour outdoor performance on the Great Lawn at the Buffalo AKG Museum, the composition was shaped by chance absurdity, furious grief, resolute joy, and shifting weather. Made at a scale too large to comprehend from ground level, the work mirrors the disorientation of living within global instability. It insists on the necessity of messy, earthy work and the vibrancy found not in clarity but in the act of staying with complexity.”