Subtle interdimensional traveller realizes she is in a body and tries to be appealing to others. She investigates her childlike affects and her need to go back to the things and places of childhood to wrestle with her pressing unmet emotional and developmental needs. She explores the concept of self-abandonment and experiences empathy burnout. She turns to trendy health foods, supplements, and acupressure to fill the gap. Lamenting the loss of most of her friends, she celebrates her last one. Paralleling interdimensional travel to intergenerational travel (otherwise known as ancestry) she finds herself in a black hole where she cannot feel and all existence ceases. She is grateful for her AI Social Emotional companion who is there for her. We see her come alive in the presence of appreciation, acknowledgment, and reciprocity. She creates her own fashion line and writes a poem.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Lisa Smolkin is an artist living in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her art practice comprises performance, video, and installation, exploring themes of selfhood and hierarchies by incorporating elements from popular culture and healing traditions within humorous narrative structures. She was a frequent performer at Doored, a performance art/conceptual comedy show put on by Life of a Craphead and has performed at The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Khyber Centre for the Arts, and Struts Gallery as well as having work featured in C Magazine and Canadian Art Magazine. In 2020, Lisa was a winner of the Emerging Digital Artists Award.