The body experiences the passage of time in various ways, at varying speeds and intensities, at all moments, always. We understand time relatively. We are bound to and by time together at all times. Through extreme acts of endurance, one can access alternative perceptions of time by placing one's body in a trance-like state, in which time is as malleable as any other medium. The “Running Makes Me Feel” performance both explores and exists in this extratemporal, interstitial space.

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I wanted to know what it would feel like to perform the same action, in the same place, on the same day as a loved one, 26 years later. What did she see? Would I feel her with me while I was running? To document my experience, I ran with multiple disposable cameras in my pockets to capture the performance from my/her point of view. I did not train for this performance.

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“Running Makes Me Feel” started in Staten Island on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and ended in Manhattan in Central Park, lasting 7 hours, 5 minutes, and 27 seconds. This performance raised $7,770.00 for immunotherapy research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital Cancer Center in New York City, where my mom passed away (in a room with a view of mile 15). This installation iteration presented at California Institute of the Arts included 47 photographs from disposable cameras and 1 photograph from my mom’s 1998 marathon finish.