Me eating a raw onion to “Outside”
A performance piece I do called “to stay is to suffer me” originally intended just to step out of my comfort zone and cry in front of an audience. Later evolving to a somewhat reflective piece about the experience itself. My poor partner had to kiss me with onion breath for days after the initial piece, motivating the title. Are we willing to stay with people with the knowledge that they’ve said or done things we don’t like? The knowledge that they may continue to do them? Are we willing to keep tasting the onions every time we kiss?