'At the Fifth Stroke’ is a public video projection created from a theatrical performance.
Twelve performers bail water around a huge back-lit, multi-tiered scaffolding creating the
facsimile of a clock. The piece is fueled by each individual’s notion of labor, responsibility
for water and work ethic.

The piece is inspired by seeing workers shoveling large sand piles from the ground up to the roof of a construction site, one shovelful at a time. Their labor recalled the lines from Lewis Carol:“If seven maids with seven mops / Swept it for half a year. / Do you suppose,” the Walrus said, / “That they could get it clear?”.

In ‘At the Fifth Stroke’ each character is part of an engine that drives water around a rising circle. The piece will be rehearsed as theater and produced as a video projection.