DANGLY THINGS | An Appropriate Response To Lite Skint Behaviors
Intro
It was 2022. Spring had sprung and so had I. Finally out of relationship grief, I sought to try again. I鈥檇 connected with someone I鈥檇 met last year. Also out of a relationship. I wasn鈥檛 looking for anything serious; just an intimacy support person. They were looking for鈥攅rh, whatever the fuck that was. Being honest with myself, I was looking for a distraction. From my fears and the work at hand. This connection was my wake up call. I was angry for a long time鈥攕till kinda am鈥攂ut I鈥檓 grateful for the reminder that as long as I
-prioritize distractions over tending to my garden
-am moved by words in lieu of actions
-am not resolute in my boundaries,
I鈥檒l always have a person sending me back to therapy.
So thanks for the lesson, I guess. It鈥檚 still fuck you tho. Shout out to the lover gworls making peace and love with themselves in this sometimes cold, dark world. Pockets full of sunshine still exist. Hold on to your love.
My name is聽Adesola (she/her). I'm a filmmaker who loves dancing with her friends, going to Nigerian weddings, and swimming in public pools. Today, my dear friends read聽this letter on my behalf as I am currently in Atlanta for.... you guessed it, a Nigerian wedding. Woohoo.
Though I work in the m-m-m movies as writer-director, 1st AD, and creative producer - I've always been keen on and fascinated by music. Music has led me to have many past lives in which I was a college radio personality and Silent Disco DJ. Sexy, I know.聽
I've been thinking lately about聽making聽versus making it. Giving oneself permission to practice at something like music making, not necessarily so that you'll improve but so that your body can become acquainted with making time for something for the joy and ritual of incrementally working it out, seeing something change, learning when your mind needs to pause, having the thumbprints聽of many days upon some completed something. Being kind to the soft animal of your body all the way through, that being love.聽
This collection of four聽ambient and UK jungle inspired songs聽is collectively entitled 'more songs about atlanta' a follow-up to my show and tell piece last year that primarily reflected on my home city, the stop cop city movement, and our collective environmental future.聽
this year I continued meditating on the movement. i've also been thinking alot about my friends. our disillusionment at work, with the climate and economic reality we've inherited, and the ongoing US backed violence against palestine, sudan, haiti, the drc, among many other聽states. i hope these songs and they're titles are flavor to your ears and balm to your spirits.聽
Thanks for gathering here to share and engage with one another's聽art. I think art sharing and space sharing is one of the most loving things we can do together on this planet.聽Jobs and selling our time so that we can be resourced and live indoors is adorable and all, but聽the spirit in which we've gathered today is what love is about and why we were all woven into the universe.聽
be good to each other聽+ palestine will be free in our lifetime