Volcano Songs

2021

GIVE ME YOUR WHEAT-FIELD PROMISE // MOUTHFUL OF GOLD // LIPS OF FIRE

Can you write a love song to power?

Vesuvius worked in its own way on my consciousness. The volcano became a point of orientation, both physically and emotionally.

Things work their way into you -

the volcano becomes a part of your body.

Here is a power that permeates, cycles, runs through and around bodies. At the water’s edge where lava has been worn smooth, the very ground you walk on. Power beyond our human constructs, power with a playfulness, but also with the capacity for both creation and destruction.

Is this kind of power hard to love, or is an appreciation of this power exactly what we should be striving for? Something very real and honest - a world which both disregards and holds us, a world which does not belong to us but which we belong to.

Volcanos are apertures, where one world’s truth spills into another. 

Pressure points, radical upheavals, giving way to both destruction and creation - there is beauty in their irreducibility. They cannot be tamed. 

Volcanos exist despite us, completely beyond the human realm - they remind us the that this planet is not ours, but that we belong to the earth. This belonging is the first belonging that we experience, inalienable.