A DANCE OF LIGHT

PART 5: a passage between

A Dance of Light is a six-part collaborative project by Lisa DeLong, Nicole Pinnell, and James Goldberg. This project, created in a time of darkness, weaves together visual art, music, and poetry in a shared meditation on light. Starting on the 2020 Winter Solstice, we’ll be releasing one part each Monday. Part 5 was posted on January 18th.

Template

by Lisa DeLong

Gold leaf, collage, ink, and watercolour on paper. (Click to see full image.)

template (transcription)

by James Goldberg

For reading ease, here is a transcript of the "Template" text, which can be read ascending or descending – that is, from bottom to top as well as top to bottom.

oh Chava, pass through
the veil is torn

and what should I desire?

the tree that nourishes all fruit
I am  
God’s womb, an umbilical temple 

can we enter, again, a womb? 

not once, but twice
because my son was born