Portrait of our Selves
by Tom Huppermans-Bornadeaux & Nikolaj Fondt Salzwedell
The piece consists of three stages
The Meeting, the Cleansing and the Being
When the individuals meet a presumed resistance is present
in order to go beyond their Selves
The trajectory of the piece is to scrub away this resistance
and allow their Selves a collective Being
A piano is in Space
The individuals will scrub the piano
Taking it apart, stretching its capabilities of sound
The piano makes sound and allows for connectivity
Through harmonies, through songs, through soundscapes
By the end of the trajectory, the piano is split into pieces
allowing its Self to be revealed and go beyond
The piano becomes both the tool to help the elongation
As well as the physical representation of this tranformation
Everything is everything all the time
Photos by: Jesse Blaauw and Edwin Hunter
The approach will not be to have a formal invitation for people to sing along
or for Us to be forced into participation, no, no
We, as the people facilitating the Space,
will become Naked and open doors
so people can allow themselves to be Naked
and dissolve into collectiveness
feeling a natural compellingness
to go beyond
into Eternity
Together