pornogram

Published: Oct. 6, 2006, 3:41 a.m.

b'Angie\'s statement: \\n"This piece is intended to serve as a silent, guided visualization of what it might look like to re-enter the world after one survives an apocalypse. I mean "apocalypse" as the kind of life crisis that consists of an explosion: this may be a literal one, or it maybe the aftermath in which we find both our hearts and our dreams completely demolished. This piece of art is one I watch when I lose faith in myself. It of course is a visualization that I watch on my iPod as I walk through a period in my life that is uglier and more degrading than the actual fight for my life that I won the night I was sexually assaulted and escaped in order to save myself, and to tell the police so that I could let go of the pain that experience was causing me, andlet the authorities do the right thing in catching him and putting himin prison for crimes he had already committed against so many otherwomen. IT IS POSSIBLE, and it has been done, by a woman who at the time, was completely alone. The fate of that woman has yet to be determined, and her optimism comes and goes, but I know I\'m going to keep watching thiswhen I lose faith in myself to try and remember it\'s not always goingto be like this."'