March 2010 Assignment: He She Me

Work with the writing below from one of the participants of the South Asian Network's survivor support group during our workshop on gender.

You can use a line or the whole thing, you can use it as a starting point for inspiration, or keep your piece tightly connected to it. Whatever you do, please find some way to use some or all of the actual text (as sound score or visual material).


"The me -male plus female, a combination of both. He is just an extension of the she. She is so complete, so fulfilled, so deep and then is still incomplete and somewhat empty. The he resides inside her, takes food for life from her. Her ambitions, her thoughts, her depth, her thoughtfulness, her care and love is what he desires and longs for. Just lives somewhere within her, impossible to separate from her. The he inside her is deeply in love with her, so completely mesmerized by her existence. He takes his inspirations from her, resents her sometimes for her own perfectly complete existence and then falls in love with her all over again. The he is 'her' - the she 'her' -It's a communion of two different universes with all the entropy there is to it. But 'he' just resides inside her, that's where his safe heaven is - within her. A dance of two beautiful abstract minds where the 'he' just wants to be absorbed and consumed by the 'she.'"