21 st Century Interceding Invocation for the Safe Landing of Refuguees in Our Shores is a participative multi-media installation celebrating natural forces and the power of the spoken word and collective intentions. Addressing current political, social and cultural tensions participants are asked to wear a shell-made device /the better to reach the Sea God/esses/ while reading an invocation for protection of crossing refugees. The recorded readings are layered becoming a sea of spells.
If you would like to be part of this collaborative spell reading, record yourself reading the spell and send the file to contact@thespacebetween.eu. Thank you.
21st Century Interceding Invocation for the Safe Landing of Refugees in Our Shores
Dark, attractive, magical spaces from within my unconscious
Or maybe collective ones
Snails, hay, spells whispered in fast far away languages
I want to be there
I want to run
I don’t belong
Anywhere not there not here
The in-between space
The only I can be cold, thirsty, scared, borderline
In Our Shores
I am the daughter of the Thunderbolt,
Pure energy on Earth
With no command on your domain
I am the sister of the crow, of the blackbird,
Pure energy on the sky,
With no command on your domain
Here I am
In my most infinite smallesnest
Trying to dial the right number
To the daughters of the Sea
Sea Goddesses, Sea Gods
Can you hear me?
Do I need a bigger shell?
Poseidon, Galene,,Oceanus, Thalassa…
I am calling to ask
For a break
For a spell of tropical weather over
That dinghy
To get safe and nice to Our Shores
To new life
To new hope
To new beginning
To old beginning
To a beginning
I am calling to say I love you
I love them
I love us
I love
Spell by Ana Escobar as part of the piece Our Shores 2019©Ana Escobar
These photographs were taken at The Warren beach in Folkestone, main arrival area for refugees crossing in boats the English Channel from France to the UK. A slideshow made with this images is projected in front of audiences reading the Spell, while listening to a sound piece of an agitated sea through a shell made device.
Installation photographs from Our Shores, collecting audiences Spells Readings, as part of Writing Photographs at The Art Academy, London, October 2019.
