repeat:
a collaboration with Hanny Newton
Repeat. Was a project born out of an arts exchange. In this case it was a paring of an incredibly talented artist and embroiderer and a poet.
The main theme was intrusive, repetitive thoughts - the odd patterns and rhythms that are formed and the trance like state one is in when thinking them.
This involved finding a repetitive phrase 'as ‘thinking about not thinking about thinking about not thinking about’ then creating a notation for the rhythm.
Hanny spent hours repeating the phrase as she drew the notations. Creating circles over a meter squared, with tear stains creating imperfections due to sheer concentration.
The piece culminated in a performance commissioned by Ty Pawb and Wrexham council.
… until morning comes
but
this sunrise's grin is tinted with malice
cracked steeple teeth
stained yellow as tobacco
black-blue houses sneer
bruised as a punched mouth
filled with the heckle of
jackdaw’s dawn choruses
calling you at your window
and it’s a pitter-patter of little whispers
like the ones you don’t trust
like the ones you don’t want to hear
this earworm’s been coaxed up
and it’s fucking tinnitus
a click track
an ever repeating high-hat
start to tick tick tick
in off-beat triplets
t t t
to to to tell me
to eat to to
to eat to feel to
to eat to feel to feed to
eat to feel to feed the compulsion
eat to feel nothing to feed the compulsion
feel that nothing feeds the compulsion
and nothing feeds the compulsion
so feed the compulsion
feed the compulsion
feed the compulsion
triple-cooked double-deep-fat-fried
self-annihilating behaviours
fructose-like sugar coated lies
like happy meal happiness
can be found in fake cut out smiles
and brightly coloured monsters
This compulsions is the monster
and I must feed him
to stay alive…
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