don’t we wonder and ponder too much nowadays? Just enjoying leaves ones mind open to new and challenging suggestions.
annlee trudged slowly through the still, dark forest
michael szpakowski/ may 2012/ video / 40 secs
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
ché la diritta via era smarrita.
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Anne Lee – You?
My blue dress is my only house and my only reference.
A lost alien, I have a heart, but no direct link to technology.
Misplaced in time and space, I come from a dark place
There I used to have petals,
Petals that grew along the journey
That turned red
And then turned around my body
that turned faster around its centre.
I keep travelling wherever the net brings me,
I turn like a dervish and walk like a gipsy,
I stand and fall like a wild flower in the field
I sing the song of the blue poppy chasing a little red honeybee.
Here I am, just as lost as you.
You don’t know me, I don’t know You – Lee Anne.
Guide me, tell me where to stand, set the lights as you like,
tell me when to turn, when to stop, where to fall,
where you want me to be next – and I’ll follow,
Anything, just to get out of here.
mudras
michael szpakowski/ may 2012/ video / 2:24 min.
‘Emotion stirs within and forms into words. As the
words are inadequate, one sighs them. As the sighing
is inadequate, one sings aloud. As the singing is
inadequate, without knowing it, the hands start to
dance, and the feet to beat in time.’
Wei Hung, from the Major Preface to the Shih Ching
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annlee variations
michael szpakowski/ may 2012/ piano, euphonium and manipulated voice of pierre huyghe/ 4:49 min.
‘So…it disappeared as an image but it didn’t disappear as an entity. You can still talk
about it, you can make a novel about…Annlee.’
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