Ich - I: Tell me who I am
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a multimedia installation I did in collaboration with Nick Colecchia. The goal of the project is to transfer and develop the essence of Metamorphosis captured in the initial painting through different media
First, I created the middle piece of the paintings. In a second step, Nick improvised with his drums and spoken word inspired by my painting. We then created the sound together and divided it into three parts: Vibrating silence, the lyrics forever, and heartbeat.
Each of us created a poem and we wrote Part 3 together.
Finally, we created a video. The video was shot by Andrew Morales and edited mostly by me and Andrew Morales in the presence of Nick.
Metamorphosis characterizes the process of change within us. We are influenced by our current environment and the traces other people left within ourselves.
We hope that every person is able to connect their personal Metamorphosis to our installation.
The installation is currently on display at the store next to the 116th station in Rockaway.
It is part of the effort to bring art into the public space, back into the daily life of people.
Please leave a comment/your reaction/thoughts/feelings to Metamorphosis on my Instagram account @realfictionart or send an email/ audio file to realfictionart@gmail.com. I will collect all responses and use them for the next audio installation.
We will also have a live performance in the near future.
The date will be announced soon.
Thank you for becoming a part of Metamorphosis.
Vibrating
Silence
Forever
Heartbeat
Lyrics.
PART 2
PART 1
Für immer (forever)
Deep
down
down
underneath
Breath
Drops of
You
Me
You me me you you
Me
Drops of me
Crawling
Slowly
ripping through
Cement
Walls
flooding
thick black streams
rushing reaching
forming steel capturing waves
Overwhelming me
Overcoming busted
holy ground
Bathing us in
Everlasting
concrete
cracks splitting
fine drawn lines
Splitting
the woven patterns of
Us
Dipping into sacred ground
A darkness bearing
Shimmer
Touching my everlasting
Pulse
Deep down underneath
buried
are you.
We are
the catalyst
For the metamorphosis
Silent chrysalis
Forever growing
Forever flowing
Wrapped
In the fingers
Touching
An everlasting thought
Spiritual being
Can you see? (both people together)
The still creatures
That can live freely
A shark in the ocean
A fish in the sea
Shadows
Casted by the light
Relative
to The Perspective
As you flow
On the thread of fate
As the current in a river
As the blood in your veins
Irrational fear
Nothing but memories
From
Past life scenes
Imaginative potentialities
The future leans
But you see
See the seams
Of overlapping
Past life seams
Existential dreams
Embers
To the trees
Souls on fire
Just another transformation
To spread your wings
PART 3
I see you
Do You?
I see you
You are us
We are us
Don't you see?
I can see
you are us
I see so clearly.
There can’t be an us
Before the Me.
We (both)
Why can’t you see
What I see
The beauty
That is “we”
There is no we
Before there is
you
And me
(We)
if there is no we...
Who is me?
We!
You.
Me?
You!
Me?
We!
You!
Me!
We.
Me.....