The Man in Black is a piece about outcasts and how society doesn't see them, or doesn't want to see them, by choice or other reasons. Or maybe the outcasts choose not to be seen.
I bought poster paint and covered myself with it, leaving only my hair and forehead visible, in part because I didn't want to be accused of going black face, but also because there was a small part of my outcast who wanted to be seen. I didn't want to totally slip away that night.
It took weeks for the paint to come out of my fingernails, and my shoes have always had two shades of black on them since that night.
This was performed at Rutgers-Camden in February of 2005.
