I Will Love You Until I Die (7’07”) is a tale of love as it evolves through sentient form, ever towards higher expression.
Karpowicz burns a funeral pyre for her past of love outgrown. She lets go with grace and care, in the presence of nature who has lent the elements and sent emissaries to witness a liberation and rebirth. The artist submits herself to the renewal of symbolic death that will unbind the promises of old.
The artist performs a wedding ceremony, committing herself once again, this time to the one true love. She is the bride, the groom, and the hierophant. She is whole. Her unchanged vows carry a new understanding.
The sovereign woman has embraced promises as made to be broken, forms outgrown, and ritual re- imagined, to allow the recognition that beyond commitment freely given, love calls for a dynamic readjustment. She has bared before us the secret ritual of coming of age, the holy prerequisite for right relationship, and incidentally, a happy marriage with another.