Sound Installation.
Sound piece: 5:04’
Stones, branches, lavender, and zafu
2022 CABA
Suddenly, I am wounded…
And my heart stops,
My hair coils,
My shoulders expand,
Oh, my fingers bloom,
My limbs sprout wings,
I am going to drown
In lights and fragrances…
For in the midst of the jungle,
Your sweet voice calls me…
—Alfonsina Storni, The Call (excerpt)
A circle of stones, an instruction on the wall inviting visitors to sit on the zafu and experience the sound of The Calling – a sonic piece composed of the creaking of branches in the Valdivian forest of Patagonia, Argentina, intertwined with a reading of Alfonsina Storni’s poem of the same name. Like asemic writing, the poem’s text dissolves through technological processing, transforming into ghosts and presences.
I propose a moment of introspection, a meditation to foster an internal experience—a personal journey. As Lorena Cabnal* says, to “bring forth the healing thread of our ancestral memory,” where ” all bodies hold healing memory, though mutilated by oppression”—a memory that is awakened through spiritual connection with nature.
Lorena Cabnal is a community feminist thinker and indigenous Maya-Xinka woman from Guatemala.
