28 Days Greater
in-process development space
created by Carolyn Defrin
Below is a working structure for the series of 28 artworks that includes visual inspiration, original poetic text and potential filming ideas. This is work in progress that will continue to be informed by the 28 interviews, my own responsive writing, and collaboration with filmmaker Rosie Powell on the visual world.
Winter: 1-6
Spring: 7-13
Summer 14-20
Fall: 21-28
1.
Oh!...surrender
the beginning begins in the remembered surprise that 'oh, here is the deep end- the change of colour, the sand losing its place
no, rather giving way
to new space
7.
swimming up to land
Film idea: Dim light grows slowly as she swim s up to the shore and plants new feet in the ground
14.
bright, bold light
Collage idea: Bright light shines on a chorus of women in voluminous feathers. They lift her up and she moves and shake the world into something new.
21.
suspension
Day 21: Clouds of rage and anxiety suspend your world in slow motion and you spin upside down with it...Surrender. Darkness, swimming bravely back into the uncertainty of the next evolution, remembering rest is resilience
2.
insides bleed
lying in the same dark body of water as the crown I am at ease in its non-wearing
is this the female hero?
8.
feet in the ground
Film idea: close-up toes in sand, layered with poetic text
15.
'baby, baby, you sure like to fuck'
to be written...
22.
eat the whole thing
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3.
blood-clot
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9.
Mother
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16.
with
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23.
rage
and I will rage in this moment for all the passive eating of myself I have done
I will rage for my own soul
and the souls of past women whose have swallowed themselves whole...
4.
do nothing
Do nothing
doing nothing is
the full embrace of confusion
in the nothing be upset
in the nothing be hurt
in the nothing be scared
that you aren't doing enough or knowing enough or
showing your value enough
to the world enough
come on commit to it
commit to doing nothing
10.
???
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17.
power walking
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24.
fight
self : fight for what you believe but pick your battle's time and place –
that's strategy –that's cycles of fuck-ups evolved and evolving
pre-self: but I like myself better as the diplomat
self: that's left over residual perfect femininity likeable bullshit
5.
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11.
???
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18.
the return (ii)
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25.
???
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6.
the return (i)
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12.
???
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19.
???
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26.
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