In this performance, I ignite the wicks and hold a fragile wax globe in my hands. Two wicks emerge from my mapped locations, Connecticut and Tehran, burning toward one another along a straight chord through the sphere. As the flames advance and time passes, my black dress is stained by falling white wax and the weight grows harder to hold.

Through this piece, I want to approach the embodied desire for reconnection that is capable of altering the structure that imposes this separation. As the two flames move toward one another, their approach simultaneously destroys the wax globe that holds them apart, turning desire into a material and structural transformation of the system through which it moves.