Monumental

In Monumental small gestures of inclusion and connectivity support the construction of an immaterial material dwelling that is appearing, disappearing and resurfacing all at once; throughout, a commemoration of our time spent together. The Archer is my poem recited and choreographed throughout Monumental. Conceptually monumental: “My body remains the enduring reality” ¹. At the same time, my body resists a singular monumentality in favour of the collective, connective, communicable and vocal, ephemeral and impermanent monumentality. I created Monumental during a period of intensive research and development with choreographer Siobhan Davies at Siobhan Davies Studios, London.

¹Yvonne Rainer, The Mind is a Muscle.

The Archer

Direct your golden arrows all asunder
Bronze archer of Elegia let fly
Your heart and foot keep steady as they cry
As soft as silk through time like thoughts they wander

Lost and gone or absent and not yet
Flashes of gold strike marvels that they find
And make a tomb of time within a time
Immortalised in death by arrows dent

He focuses his efforts on the sutures
Where prophecies unstick as arrows strike
Where cenotaphs of time bleed where they spike
Preventing what is past becoming future

Memories and prophecies collide
In vaults that ever deeper we embody
Ever near yet ever hear we see
The golden archers arrows dart and dive