Zaroff's Tale	"The process of working with the hands with a loop of string is an art of prehistory. For the Topek Inuits of Alaska, of whom Zaroff was chief, it was a part of the fabric of social relations joining successive generations. In this tradition the string forms are part of a teaching mythology carrying the germ information for life in the arctic north. The existence of the 'game' today is based on its durability in its role in this social matrix. I consider the string forms the signature of a dynasty of social sculptors. It embraces the meta-physical and extends our relationship to phenomena." Program description from: MINI-PARA-PERFORM-ACTIONS.
		Zaroff's Tale, was performed in September of 1983, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
	Zaroff's Tale uses a 200 ft. rope and a variety of visual and audio media techniques to communicate the relationship between abstract string compositions and the teaching mythologies associated with them in the culture of the Topek Inuits. The relationships between visual form, physical action and social content are explored as an allegorical presentation of new relationships inherent in our own current and future technologies. I construct the string forms to be viewed not as a finished form, but as an art form taken out of a sentence of larger context, of many more transitions. In this manner the viewer is instructed to bear in mind the manipulators, present and past, whose hands or bodies are not shown but rather implied in the ropes.