Solstice is a reverie inspired by my love of swimming in a small, spring-fed lake on the island where I live. Summer solstice marks the longest day of the year; the word comes from the Latin word "solsticium", which can be translated as "sun stands still". I wanted this piece to invoke a feeling of inhabiting a time out of time, with its meditative pace and focus on intimate, sensual details. Here the vitality, or eros, of the natural world is encountered through the physical; the perceived separation between the human and the more-than-human realms becomes blurred when we are a loving witness to and embodied participant in the everyday magic that exists all around us. Being in respectful, reciprocal relationship to the world we live in invites us to truly belong, and to celebrate life's simple, fleeting moments as openings to a sense of inter-being, presence and connectivity.

Photograph by @stasia.garraway

Sound design and video processing by @noahpred

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