Lady Lazarus

Abstract

'Lady Lazarus' documents an individual’s contest with the ungovernable nature of life, their futile struggles against such forces, and a rather unfortunate instinctual insistence upon existing. Through the medium of the moving image and stop motion animation, we witness as the protagonist's deliquescence rejects the notion of life, yet their lingering corporeality rejects death. Informed by personal struggles with chronic afflictions of the body and mind, the work is a quiet introspection of personal escapist propensities and the tumultuous human experience of death, birth and especially everything in between.