It was just last February when local performance artist Brian Feldman announced that he’d marry a strange woman – any woman would do, as long as she was willing, of age and a U.S. citizen – to make a statement about the inequality of marriage laws in the state of Florida, which does not recognize gay marriage.

Feldman announced that prospective brides could simply show up at the Orange County Courthouse, and (surprisingly? not surprisingly?) they did. Hannah Miller became the lucky lady who earned the right to marry they guy known from such performances as Brian Feldman Charges Your Cell Phone (“A complimentary service as part of 3rd Thursday, Brian Feldman will be stationed in front of CityArts Factory, ready to charge the cell phones of passersby whose cell phones are in need of charging”) and Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (“Hand Brian Feldman some cash or a bank card and he’ll place any Pizza Hut or Taco Bell order on your behalf, while on the phone with you”).

The two tied the knot before a group of well wishers (including OW‘s Seth Kubersky, who bore witness to the blessed event in his Live Active Cultures column that week), and for the past 11 months the couple has lived in wedded … well, not bliss, exactly. And not together, either (according to a press release, the two have seen one another less than 10 times since the wedding). It wasn’t meant to be a real marriage after all, but a statement about how ridiculous it is that any two dumbasses off the street can be legally married just a few days after they meet for the first time, while gay couples who’ve spent years – decades, even – together in dedicated relationships are shut out by Our Dumb State’s laws.

But now the loveless marriage is coming to an end. Tomorrow morning (Jan. 19) at 9:15 a.m., Feldman and his bride are petitioning for an annulment. In a press release that came out earlier this afternoon (which we didn’t read until this evening, because we were very busy putting together our most recent dead-tree version of Orlando Weekly), Feldman doesn’t exactly explain the decision to call it quits now. But he does say he and Miller “have fought valiantly for this cause, sacrificing their own personal relationships to do so.”

In fact, the project itself and the inspiration of the people whose lives have been touched by it have only deepened their commitment to this worthwhile cause. It is the people who are waiting their turn for the right to marry, who are the true heroes and that Brian and Hannah commemorate with this project.

Any interested parties are welcome to observe the proceedings. In lieu of annulment gifts, Brian and Hannah ask that you please make a donation to Equality Florida, a statewide education and advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, gender and class.

Marriage is hard, it seems, even when you’re not really married.

Anyway, if you missed the wedding and want to be part of the annulment festivities, the hearing will take place at the Orange County Courthouse, Courtroom 16H, 425 N Orange Ave.