CROSSPATCH
Duration: 2 hours
Presented as part of ‘The Wolf in the Winter’ performance collective.
Photo images: Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy. August 2003.
Performance: Den Bosch, Netherlands, August 2003.

High summer in Umbria – the shade’s cover from the sun drives the paths of all warm-blooded things.

In a motley suit designed to push contrast, I lie amongst the scenery sliced peltways by shadows.

And then in the flatlands around the town square of Den Bosch I take root on streetcorners, positioned so that the crosspatch suit darkens the shade, brightens the light.

Thus splicing the crossroad’s axis, I sing badly and aggressively for nonplussed voetgangers.

Aaron Williamson performing Crosspatch wearing a suit that is half black and half white, standing half in and half out of the shadown on a street corner Aaron Williamson reveals the nature of his suit by crouching in the opposite direction on the same street corner, showing the black side of the suit in the light and the light part of the suit in the shade.
Aaron Williamson performing Crosspatch wearing a suit that is half black and half white, standing half in and half out of the shadown on a street corner
Aaron Williamson performing Crosspatch by lying in his half black half whit suit on a shadowy dirt road Aaron Williamson performing Crosspatch by lying in his half black half whit suit on a shadowy street Aaron Williamson performing Crosspatch by lying in his half black half whit suit on a shadowy patch of grass