This same ocean, I knew (performance video)

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01:10, Digital Video, Sound Recording (Vocal performance by Angela Counts).

Part of the fall 2010 Post-Baccalaureate group show, 27 Days, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The waves so restless now,

Tossing us about, confused

This same ocean I knew

Since youth, and his eyes too

And now, I can’t look.

His eyes, the same as mine.

Panic, they look away. The same,

Dark, ocean we belong.

Only now, terror: the smells

That we did not know. So

Close together. The shame

I never knew; his leg

Crossed with mine, and hers too.

Somebody’s arm bloodied. She fell,

We smell, each other,

Our humanity. Who are these

Devils, the ones with greedy teeth?

What did we do, and

Now can it be undone?

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