Project description:
Taking the 1933 movie King Kong as a point of departure and inspiration, Meeting Darrow deals with loss, longing, fear, and desire. It is a spiraling essay -- citation, example, argument, tangent, analysis. It is framed -- reframed, played again, re-edited.

It is all illogically connected. The need is to locate, identify, find meaning but the vocabulary constantly shifts.

“The first time we see her she is stealing an apple. The image is in black and white. She is in a gray skirt, an old coat, a small hat, her golden hair in curls close to her head. It seems early or late winter, New York. She is at a fruit stand on the street -- eyes glancing, cautious -- her hand white and fragile reaching out to pull an apple from the vendor's box. And then, the wrist is caught. It is the frozen moment of taking, of touching and taking, but she is not Eve. This is where we begin, the moment that transports her and us with her onto a voyage of discovery, a collision with the unknown and yes, a descent into darkness, a darkness embodied by a giant half-man, half-ape -- King Kong. It is a story of her and our inability to accept the apple untouched. We are, of course, out of control. Nothing we know prepares us for this; it is a world beyond us, greater than all our imaginings. It can only and must end in a fall -- the darkness tumbling story after story amid screaming and crying and absolute chaos and the sound of airplanes pushing back the dark -- falling, falling to an end. She is Ann Darrow, we know her as Faye. She is forever imprinted for us, her face -- the mouth open, screaming...”

The questions: What are the mechanics of perception? Can motion be considered solid? How do we remember? Is memory history? Can there be clarity in such things?

Influencing phrases: Our two souls...which are one, though I must go, endure not yet a breach, but an expansion, like gold to airy thinness beat. - John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

On process and weddings: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

Once every three years, the ships...came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks. - First Kings, 10:22