From Between Her Legs​

 

Down, down, down into the earth, he reined his horses

Die, die, die! – no child, no wheat, no flowers, no feasts;

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From between her legs, her laughter sounds full–
Now the world, the land, the women will thrive again.

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Sound piece for SPLAYED, an exhibition by Eva and Belinda Papavasiliou presented in February 2022 at MeMeraki, Limassol. Written as an ambient loop accompanying a sculptural installation and time-based performance, the piece responds to the myth of Baubo, a headless goddess in Greek mythology who has breasts for eyes and speaks from between her legs.

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Vocal arrangement drawing on Arvo Pärt's tintinnabuli compositional technique; lyrics adapted from Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (1992). 

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