Intimacy and Belief in Words

By Lesley Dill on MON, MAY 26TH 2008, NOON

Letters of inspiration to Daniel Hughes, music director for Divide Light and director of The Choral Project (TCP) from Lesley Dill

Dear Daniel and TCP,

The intimacy and belief in words is integral in my work, be it performance or the visual world of photography (which you will see in the video projections for Divide Light). Words stain into us. Words attach themselves to us in different places - they land on various parts of the body when we are listening and they emit themselves from different parts as well. Some words we don't fully absorb, some words we take in deep, and some words we lose. We grow fat with language and we also grow thin as language flows out of us. The floating suspended nature of language exhaled through song or speech is a kind of Northern Lights of understanding.

Sing on, my thoughts are with you.

Lesley