Scary woman wrapped in plastic

Outside Macy’s on State Street, there were lots of street performers.  I passed by a couple of times, and saw girls riding huge tricycles with video screens on back … a troupe of kite-toting Cirque du Soleil promoters … and, oddest of all, a woman who had wrapped herself in clear plastic.

She was holding a bouquet of white flowers, and wore something that looked like a wedding dress.  And she was inside a plastic bag.  I mean entirely inside a plastic bag, head to toe.  At her feet were a bunch of mechanical baby dolls, also white, kicking and crying in futility.

Now, when I was a kid, my momma taught me not to stick my head in a plastic bag.  Intriguing as this performance artist was … well, disturbing may be a better word … I wonder if the woman in the bag didn’t miss this lesson at some crucial point in her childhood.

Check out the video I shot … I think it’s the crying mechanical babies that really gets me.

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