this is for you
this is for you (2021)
gestural poem [00:03:00]
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this is for you (2021)
gestural poem [00:03:00]
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gestural poem [00:03:00]
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With an indefinite distance and unscathed love for you, this is for you is a gestural poem; a signal to you. And let me be clear, ‘you’ is not an ambiguous enigma; a sloppy attempt to address everyone whilst simultaneously addressing no one. Nay, these three letters are solely yours...
Enacted during the sombre month of January 2021, when Ireland was in its’ third and current lockdown, this is for you is a wishful act of love to those whom I long to be with; both living and dead. For it’s startling to consider what a person desires when a looming sense of death—or rather survival—hangs in the foreground. But then again, are any of us actually surviving this? T-h-i-s. A determiner which holds the potency of every emotion we have ever felt, denied and sat with.
Stretching my latent limbs from the chambers of physical remoteness, I reach out for what is yearned most: a tender touch and reassurance that this will pass even if this passing draws nearer to my own demise. Alas, proximity has become a meaningless spatial concept apart from the destination which is desired.
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Enacted during the sombre month of January 2021, when Ireland was in its’ third and current lockdown, this is for you is a wishful act of love to those whom I long to be with; both living and dead. For it’s startling to consider what a person desires when a looming sense of death—or rather survival—hangs in the foreground. But then again, are any of us actually surviving this? T-h-i-s. A determiner which holds the potency of every emotion we have ever felt, denied and sat with.
Stretching my latent limbs from the chambers of physical remoteness, I reach out for what is yearned most: a tender touch and reassurance that this will pass even if this passing draws nearer to my own demise. Alas, proximity has become a meaningless spatial concept apart from the destination which is desired.