Breaking the Surface is an one-hour changing durational performance performed repeatedly over the course of 8 days in the Student Gallery, Bergen, Norway. Every day I performed with a different "surface", a layer of a material covering the face, that gets slowly peeled, torn or rubbed off during the course of the hour.  I question and wonder what people perceive when they look at me. What is the act of looking and what do we see or project on others? Do people dare to look beyond surface level or do they avert their eyes from my uncomfortable gaze?