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earth and evensong (maa ja iltavesper) 2024

In this video I wanted to follow the logic of dream, where the images following each other are sometimes seemingly disparate yet bound together by an invisible red thread. The logic that only makes sense if one surrenders to the flow of body’s memory, it’s unknown, unthinkable associations to forgotten events, hidden fears and desires. Yet, the images have a recognisable common nominator: our inviolable boundness to the earth and her elements.

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.