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Performance: Looking back

For this collaboration, I am grateful to Natalia Gurova, an artist based in Vienna. She was the one who included me in her project, where I was able to publish one of my texts: Looking back. 

At the time of the performance, I reinterpreted this text with heartbeats, real images, and Ramon's Nze Esono Ebalé artwork on my skin. A reproduction of time, pain, and maternal connection. 

I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to present what I feel. The event took place at the Roessl Palace in Vienna, on the occasion of Erntedankfest.  Foto: Peter Oroszlany
4.10.2025


                                                      Lulaby:

And maybe I will be the one who overcomes 
your decisions straight and well undone
keep the fire clear right by my side
stay with me protect me over night.

See the changing gratefully come down
ray that comes untwisted on what I found 
unending slide by slide my typing still
leaves a pattern deep in what I feel. 

Petrifying tears from my eyes shut
pircing wounds already but uncut
in my soul my beeing as it such
stay with me, protect me as it much.

Cause I get over and over and again
changing thoughts without claiming instead
bringing all that joy from every day
standing tall in all I have to say.

Love and care when suddenly despair
shouldn`t be so negative compared
cause what life brings all along with it
it`s a gift we hardly admit.


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