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Victoria L. Merriman '98: The Departure...
...Enter the Belly of the Beast," reads the sign on the door to her cramped room in the bowels of Sever Hall. Vikki Merriman has spent so much time in the Beast lately that her pine-green sleeping bag has become a fixture there. While long incubation hours in Sever's basement are a typical stage in the development of a VES film project, Merriman's senior thesis, "Burial," shares little else with the rest of the pack. Merriman cites numerous VES video classes as well as a Literature class called Culture and Performance as steps leading toward her thesis...
Inspired, in part, from her experience with crane-assisted horse burial, Merriman's video performance project features an actual crane which lowers a Plexiglas box full of prosthetic legs into a seven-by-seven foot hole in the ground which is then covered with dirt by an excavator. Meanwhile, four monitors on either side of the hole display videotaped images concerning Merriman's personal search into what happens in the afterlife. The images, shot at various angles, include her little brother and sister playing, newly planted flowers, and views of unusual objects associated with death rituals, such as fabulously-designed...
...Merriman, who has read Morrison'sBeloved and Sula, also added thatthe reading made her decide to readParadise as soon as she finished herthesis...
...Every book by her is an incredibly intense experience...the reading was really great," Merriman said...