Borders Resurfacing: Cynthia's Creative Response 2

Here is my writing remix and my movement remix!  For fun, I tried adding parts of Priya's poem as a soundtrack for the movement phrase after already choreographing and filming the phrase.  The first video is in silence, and the second one includes excerpts from Priya's writing.

borders resurfacing

stumbling at the edge of my adopted city

I don't have answers

it's all rigs and cranes and metal

frames that clog the horizon

his incoming crates were marked suspicious

after 9/11 never again to be released

hidden underwater 1900 miles

of pipeline built on Tongva land

lost bodies, child bodies

catching little frogs and river creatures

sludge oil backfire spluttering bubbles

my body alert unsure

people with their belongings strapped

to bicycles in trash bags

it is not beautiful here  

wooden houses perched rickety

so precarious so precious so

easily swept away

never again to be released

this winter of unremembering

in my imagination’s memory it is always summer

and and and peace

I exhale 

between sand and water

between Germany and Austria

I exhale oasis

the Salzach meets another river: the Saalach

pelican flies across sky

forgetting the border

the border resurfaces

a site of hope and despair

refugee life migrant life

thousands fleeing Syria

brown skin black life

roaring constant people risking their lives
ebbing rushing to save their lives

password: remix4

Borders Resurfacing remix from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.

password: remix4_priya

remix_priya from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.