GRAPHIC LOVE / B’TSELEM
for orchestra, solo voice and electronics
(c) photo by Dimitri Djuric
Program Note
This is when the thorns grew a bit deeper. You said there was beauty all around my smile when bellyskin got covered in piss and puke and I begged you to hold my breath, just a little bit longer. The ocean the kitchen the razor the glove. I was scared when you first told me about the Holographic Universe. That all exists in not three, or four or more dimensions, but two - that we are written, coded, graphic.
GRAPHIC LOVE / B’TSELEM is an orchestral piece + poem, a queer Megilla (scroll) and symphonic fabulation about desire, memory, kink and care, about being bound and tied, forcefully, consentually into all of this and saying yes to being and staying here. It is dedicated to Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, my family and families of choice, Alex and the Queer Yeshiva London, where we spun long songs, singing of the voids and strings holding things together in the form of not Holo, not holographic, but graphic, written down love, a book of love / ְבּ ֶצ ֶלם , B’tselem (in the image / shadow).
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