A Tale Of Two Bodies

video, 6:00 mins
2022

A Tale of Two Bodies pictures an imagined magical ritual in which we extract images from one another's bodies and transform them into words on the page of a book. Nestled inside the narrative framing of Hypostasis, this rite symbolizes the creation of the sister planets Allelos and Gaderian and prefigures the Mothers’ journey. Starting out vaporous and indistinct and slowly condensing into two forms, the planets mark the ends of the spectrum of wholeness/solidity > dissolution/formlessness that is central to the story and the Mothers efforts to keep Thorne. By using our bodies to generate the seed material of this transfiguration, we become mother figures of the Mothers,
just as they are ours.