The Sacraments
Several years ago I began writing personal essays and I quickly found all roads led back to Catholicism, the faith I thought I’d left behind in childhood. It was remarkable, over and over I would find myself sorting through the influences of my Catholic upbringing. As soon as I thought of writing a piece about having never liked being named Marilyn, I knew I would title it Baptism. Within moments of realizing I 
would write Baptism, I recognized I wanted to explore my personal history in the context of each of the Church’s Seven Holy Sacraments.
The Sacraments is a series of anthropological examinations, from birth to death, from Baptism to Extreme Unction; I am re-envisioning the role of Catholicism in contemporary life and exploring the personal myths and mysteries of my own life. As an interdisciplinary artist, as a writer, filmmaker, and video artist, the series naturally emerges in multiple creative spheres, the worlds of the written and spoken word, and the many universes of the moving image. - Marilyn
video essay / installation series