Reverie
I Feel
I don't know how to feel this place. Is it in the dust that exists there, a way to become opaque, unknown and forgotten. A camouflaged person mixed into the earth. Forming me into another part. Is it in the clouds aching to lower themselves, so I can walk through and be mystified, the unknown and forgotten in me awakened. Can I see into the holes without holding a candle? Or just stare at the opening wondering if darkness would turn me black as the night. Now opaque in that form. Yet, in not knowing how to feel this place. The stasis of hope longing to be free, awakens. I touch the dust, I paint the clouds. I sense the holes. I feel. Copyright - Susy Kamber All rights reserved Song Selection - Nancy Galbraith "Effervescent Air" by Nancy Galbraith features electric Baroque flute, amplified piano, Baroque string orchestra and percussion. World premiere on 15 November 2012. Stephen Schultz (flute), Luz Manriquez (piano), Carnegie Mellon Baroque Orchestra, Daniel Curtis (conductor), Sang Mok Lee (sound design).
2025
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Reshaping the Words
This brailled coat of darkened earth composed of long tinders of letters holds a message. The circular edges had been pulled apart in each word, angled now almost into a river bound for a shore. Maybe even splintered I gathered from this overhead view. All the earth I had ever wandered past always held a message. A code of sorts to behold, wrapped up to feel and translate into something meant to be understood. What had happened here was a mystery to unfold. Every part a textual interpretation of a landscape escaping. From what I wondered. Quietly she told her story, the breeze reshaping the words as I listened. Rising and reborn for the future I heard them say. To the river to purge themselves, to begin a new message of hope. Copyright © Susy Kamber
2025
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Reverie
According to philosopher John Armstrong, “Reverie is the state of giving ourselves up to the flow of associations. This state of letting something happen—a species of relaxation—is one we need to cultivate when we look at paintings or buildings. . . . Reverie is a mode of introducing personal material into a picture or building: it brings an abundance of thoughts and feelings into play. It also frees us from merely following routine assumptions. . . . Reverie operates at the root of thinking: it is essential to the creative process in which we come to make thoughts for ourselves.”
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