YOU CAN TAKE MY BREATH AWAY
((PLEASE, USING HEADPHONES WILL TROUBLE YOU))

 

 

 

4:00 min, Single channel video with live sound performance, 2009

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Fish: How do I know that’s the diagram Joanne made?

Fish's Mother: How do you think she is going to kill you?

Fish: With something I can’t comprehend. No knife, rifle, rope.

Fish's Mother: That goes unsaid. Do you know how she is going to kill you, Fish?

Fish: With words?

Fish's Mother: Words! How can that kill you!

Fish: Do you already know?

Fish's Mother: When you tell me about her, I had a video in my head.
Actually, I’m a very a graphical person. I think in pictures, and that’s why I’m very good at PowerPoint. She has three dogs, right?

Fish: No, two.

Fish's Mother: Do you know how she is going to kill you, Fish? She is going to use the three dogs against you.
She has two Bichons? She will turn your dog and the other two into Devils and hurt you. You want to know what she is going to do…?

She is going to make the three Devils running in circles at the outside of your house, and there is barking everywhere. You get so scared you start to close the door of every room in the house but you still hear the dogs barking and she is approaching. You will have nowhere to go, and you think to hide in the smallest room of the house, the little bathroom—that’s the safest place. You go into the bathroom and close the door. Suddenly, she breaks the glass windows, the dogs jump in, and she also jumps in, forcing you into the bathtub and filling it with hot water. You will drown.

 

Text from: "But I'm a Fish That Does Not Swim," Jane Hsu, 2007