More is Not Enough
Artist: Jolanta Lapiak.
4:22 minute video, audio music; ASL only.
Calgary, 2003.
More is Not Enough is an adapted Zen story, translated from a short parable in text into a video-based visual poem and performance, about a stonecutter who is envious of another, who in turn is envious of another and so on, in a loop. It illustrates that as everything is interconnected, it is futile to envy of a greener pasture. A janitor is as important as a lawyer; each has its own essential power in its own position.