olya
salimova
earth
performance with Jacob Artillery, 22 min
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
how does it feel to be alive on this planet? what does it mean to be a human in a mysterious world among other creatures of nature, spirits, stars and planets, myths and stories we tell ourselves that are always both true and made up? not having answers, i know with
Life has been married to language so long that you
might think the two could finish or begin each other's
somersaults and sentences. They don't. It only seems
as if they do. Why? Life if Being discovering
speech. Which is to say Being discovering being.
Is language Being discovering life? It might
be so. Which does not mean that speech
and being are the same.
Robert Bringhurst, Life Poem
astonishment i am but a grain of sand in a sprawling network of the relationships between nature and art, words and images, sounds and materials, time and space. and because my voice alone is faint and distant i am donning the griot's clothes to speak many voices overheard in books, songs, and other creviced spaces
all photographs by Lillian Heredia