Sometimes Shadows Disappear, Solstice, 2022
Sometimes Shadows Disappear is an exploration of images I have had (about a glass nunnery based on a medieval nunnery in Oxford, about a water-filled St Govan's chapel) while reciting a poem my 7 year old wrote last year with both of my children as part of our home-educating day.
Featuring Rhodri Davies on the harp playing Atem de Virginibus, Antiphonae and O Ignee by Hildegard von Bingen using a bow.
Visionary and mystic Hildegard Von Bingen experienced two types of spiritual visions: "the Living Light" in which she could see nothing and "the Shade of the Living Light" where there was a diffused radiance.
This is a story about an imagined connecting moment on the solstice, watery climate futures, and me in the eternal quest to find my voice. Sometimes Shadows Disappear is a phrase my 5 year old said one night before she fell asleep.
This work was commissioned by Lumin Press for Solstice Radio and Made In Roath. Many thanks to Sadia Pineda Hameed and Beau Beakhouse from Lumin Press.
