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between songs 2023

One cannot destroy what one loves. This world is stunningly beautiful.

With this video work I share the amazement and wonder that happens when taking time to sit still and let the nature talk – the tree, the birds, the pond. Other narratives become unnecessary and a distraction in a wordless devotion.

A tall Liquidambar styraciflua -tree towers in our urban backyard.

She is over 100 years old and has witnessed lives of other families before us; she observes humans’ restlessness.

Liquidambar is not an Australian native tree. I am not native either. We are immigrants from faraway lands. We have become friends – she is the older and wiser of us, and my confidant. She listens, and sometimes responds with a hum. She sees far, over the entire neighbourhood.

My friend Liquidambar will still be standing, pushing against the foundations of our house, long after I am gone.