Sanctioned Trespass
(2020)

Sephardic folk tunes and visceral sounds– one's fundamental electromagnetic frequency, heartbeat, breath, voice– have woven themselves together through generations and I am of their threads. Prayer transgresses death of the physical– memories of melodies permeate our collective past, present and future. Through juxtaposing these infinite melodies with teleological sounds such as my heartbeat, which will halt when I pass, I acknowledge both the trespassing of my physical body and the ephemerality of the body carried in the infinity of prayer. Praying is naming myself and my past into existence just as listening is a simple plea of resonance into the future.