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The Pursuit of Human-ness
CONTENT There’s been so much talk about clones and AI in alternative news I thought it would be interesting to explore this topic. I couldn’t find what I was looking for about clones (it must be classified information!) but I found some interesting articles on robots becoming self-aware. These articles raised more questions and comical notions than answers, and I felt like this video was going to be a humorous series of questions! I had the idea to bring in my old puppet mate Miso, who I used to perform with a lot. The script then started to write itself, and I feel like I had very little to say…
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The turtle and the dragon
For the first time since he could remember, all the cells in his body relaxed into each other. Warmth permeated through his shattered form. And he felt the ultimate release. Of relinquishing control. Of letting go.
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Blue Lotus Dreaming
Moons passed as the seed lay actively dormant, waiting for a perfect place to grow. And one day it appeared, quite suddenly so that for a moment it took the woman’s breath away.
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Amooshka Aliooshka
She goes hippety-clonk right down the main street With warts on her fingers and moles on her feet
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On the edge
A distant moon blown off course and hanging askew in the sky like a forgotten chandelier. Tiny gusts of breath sweeping dirt into a whirlpool when they could be bothered to exhale.
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Gateway
Others. Had she even known another? Ever? She couldn’t remember. And all the while as her shell grew and her body shrank, something kept her going. Something more.
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The Great Unrobing
For anyone to let themselves be seen in their entirety is indeed a brave thing. For it leaves one vulnerable and able to be rejected. And even more terrifying, it leaves no place to hide the awesomeness of ones’ power.
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‘Reassurance against a dark tide’ aka ‘The Sound of Life’
How small and invisible can one possibly become? How deep do I have to dig to get some peace? Is it deeper than a grave?
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Precipice
You can’t just fight against a system and dismantle it, because then people will have nothing, and people fear nothing more than the devil that they know.
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Viking Blood
What kind of infidelity of spirit is it that tears us away from our centre and refuses to let us back into our own soul temple until we prove our self-worth?
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Reflections on Bali
History class was dealt out with the emotional content of a brick, art study was a laborious rote intake of names and dates and cities, and English was all Ps and Qs with no curls.
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Gloom
What's in your kindling Why are you dwindling Setting your cage alight Who would have thought you'd Kiss you dreams goodbye
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Weary Traveller
Hello weary traveller Another sleepless night I'm trying to write a new world for the tribe And I don't want to read it alone
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Come out to play
We close our eyes to wintertime And see a sunny day While rich and poor are going blind Under electric candlelight
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Turning in circles
Now I'm blind but I see In the dark that is me That a light is still burning within
