v. trans·gressed, trans·gress·ing, trans·gress·es
v. tr.
1 To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep: “to make sure that her characters didn't transgress the parameters of ordinariness” (Ron Rosenbaum).
2 To act in violation of (the law, for example).
v. intr.
1 To commit an offense by violating a law or command; sin.
2 To spread over land, especially over the land along a subsiding shoreline. Used of the sea.
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This piece is a performance using the shapes taken from my CT scans used to build my tumor. I begin by tracing a chosen shape in the snow and repeat it by running along the outer boundary. The growth of this shape represents the accumulation of cancer cells, an action that occurs within my body. I chose the word transgress meaning to spread over land. Changing cancer's energy into a drawing in the snow, I am transferring its mass outside my body, ridding myself of disease. As the snow melts so does the cancer drawn there, resulting in its eventual deterioration and disappearance.