If You Love Me, Let Me Go is a clip of a performance piece that illustrates the feeling of being trapped in a suffocating and toxic relationship. Based on the idea of crazy ex-es, or romantic obsessions, this piece was based on my own personal experience with such relationships and aims to capture the feeling of what it felt like to be in one. As orange is stereotypically the color one wears in prison, I am dressed in an orange dress and made up like a doll, to signify my imprisonment in this relationship. The pink bubble wrap acts as satirical protection disguised as love when in retrospect, it suffocates and restricts my freedom as an individual.
Eventually realizing the situation I’ve gotten myself into, I struggle to break free from the bubble wrap. In leaving one foot bare, it represents my desperation to get out, even if it meant forsaking personal possessions. The end is a parallel between the first scene of the clip where I stand in victory of my conquest of breaking free.
