THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MARIE (2014)
Marie lived from 2010 to 2014. She traveled the world, met many people, celebrated the mundane in life, and never worried about tomorrow. She was an alter-ego, a constructed persona who represented the unconscious embodiment of my Western ideals of beauty. As I grew in self-awareness and self-acceptance of my Iranian identity, I realized that Marie had fulfilled her purpose. In honor of the important role she had played in my life, I staged her funeral and memorial in my garden, and facilitated a Letting Go Ritual, inviting the public to also dispose, by way of a "self-confession", of that which no longer served them in their own lives.