PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE
Corpus Christi, Texas, December 28, 2001

To mark the passing of the year, to consider questions of borders and liminality, and to think about the intersections between public, land, and performance art, members of P.P.P. created two poems, each fifteen by ten feet (the size of Henry David Thoreau's ideal room) where the Corpus Christi Municipal Beach ends and the Padre Island National Seashore begins on December 27th. The poems could not be other than ephemeral, marking, and marked by, the passage of time (conversations between the sand and sea). The day after, Patrick and Amy Carroll revisited the poems to find each text had undergone "revision," displaying the tracks of birds, crabs, and coyotes. Participants included: Joyce Purdy, Kit Purdy, Katie Carroll, Donna Carroll, Patrick Carroll (junior and senior), Pat McGonigle, Sylvia Carroll, Amy Carroll, Allison Senf, Joshua Harris, Lena Kirichuk. Ana Mendieta serves as our obvious influence.

Click here to see the poems.

AN HOUR OUR
GLASS' GLASSES
WAIST WASTE
(A WAY)-- AWAY
WHAT WHAT
i COULD & THEY
WOULD NOT COULD &
SAY WOULD NOT
SAY...