dreaming our futures
dream archive
video description: a songspell ripples and envelopes, cozy and warm, co-crafted and cast in care-filled crip community for dreaming our futures + embodying our dreams. we’re dreaming of wonderment. soft blurs of bright green and yellowgreen fabric portals (shaped into alexa dexa’s bed opera costume by Rebirth Garments) shimmer and slowly shift with the peach pink of alexa dexa’s body in motion. our libretto, co-crafted by all, floats to the top. sound descriptions by Hayley Ku’unani float to the bottom within brackets. all text is handwritten by alexa dexa, half-script scribbles and etches. sounds are shared by alexa dexa and their toychestra, our gorgeous crip community, and live electronic processing in maxmsp.
I’m shuffling right now my dreaming our futures + embodying our dreams oracle//composition deck. Just to sort of yeah see if there is any insight for a dream, dream messages that might surface for us. And this is a totally optional anchor point. So if it resonates, we can move with it, if it doesn’t resonate, no worries.
But yeah. Just as like a little starting off point for us. For any dream, any sort of lil crip wisdom that might be interesting to consider at this time.
This card is very, very faint. So I’m going to share. It’s got ‑‑ it’s a handful of different crayon scribbles scribbled into cloud shapes, just not uniform. But colored in nicely. Different little cloud shapes and they are inside of a larger glitched out cloud background shape. So just little like clouds within clouds, off-centered, asymmetrical, floating in space and moving. And the message on the card reads wonderment which I’m very excited about. I feel like there is some ‑‑ yeah. Some wonderment energies that have been shared among us so far. And also in the same way that I’m always thinking about how there is so much extra space for ease and for calling in ease. I feel very similarly about the wonderment as well.
I love a wonderment moment. To both wonder on what is and what isn’t but also just like the awe form of wonderment. Yeah. Like what a magical series of circumstances to be on this planet at this time and here with you all. And so okay. Let me ‑‑ I’m gonna come into my little guidebook and we’ll see ‑‑ there is a spell poem that goes along with this card. And I’m gonna find it so I can read it. Okay. Here we are. So:
wonderment
setting aside
a typical-to-now routine
to operate from
a place of wonderment
And I’ll read that again. It says:
wonderment
setting aside
a typical-to-now routine
to operate from
a place of wonderment
I think in that way, the wonderment is also a curiosity. When things don’t feel like — like a routine, sometimes in a routine it feels like we know the conclusion already, it’s the same conclusion that the routine has in all of its shapes seemingly. But a little extra curiosity and who knows what type of things might create interest or pull us one way or another. And what kind of wonderful — also part of the wonderment — what kind of wonderful new spaces are like little clouds above us that are just waiting for us to say that they look like this shape or that shape. And yeah. So maybe that’s like a dream for instead of being tied to supposed known conclusions and a definitiveness that is like a boundary where more space could be instead of like that definitiveness there being a little bit of an unknown with a lot of potential for wonders to be meeting us.
And also just a dream for wonders to be meeting us and a question about what does it look like for us to welcome the wonder in and what kinds of things can we do even small, the smallest and the most simple and the least energy-requiring ways of being able to maneuver into that space of wonder. That’s something that we can dream on, but also dream about anything, share anything — any wishes, any prayers, any spells, anything you want to carry forward with you now and into the future, anything you want to remember, anything you want to share, this is the space for that.
wonderment
right in the
moment floating
gently into white clouds
peacefully floating
recognizing words have
such power
transporting
it is ok to shed or discard
refining -> what do i really need
it’s ok to refine, free to redefine
what’s needed
it’s ok to stop dragging stuff around
to put it down
experiencing
wonder in my
internal world
brings a special type
of awe. i can
explore so many different
realms, real or unreal,
distant or nearby, it’s always
a wild time (if i want
it to be / need it to be)
examine concepts from a
billion different perspectives
imagine all kinds of worlds
seagulls live
on the roof
opposite my flat
and the youngest one
is learning to fly
i watch this small bird
standing four floors up
reading the air currents with
their wings, hovering, trusting
the lift a little more each time
this is a wonder
why i wonder
wide-eyed wonderment
(g)listening beyond the horizon
inviting hope, inviting purpose
and the ability to experience beauty
forevermore
look for wonderment
the little things that move you
each and every day
making videos
with my phone
while in bed
there is so much beauty
and i do not have to
get out of bed
what a gift
may our crip ancestors gently ground
and guide us down paths of wonders
and easeful wanders into captivating
co-creation. herons on the riverbank
a line of geese swimming slowly
an eagle soaring above, all signs
all sign, all signs, all signs
wondering wandering
wilding in a body
that agrees with my heart
and mind
free free free of all
limitations
sound description by Hayley Ku’unani.
[delicate drones stir wonderment following invitational tones to the songspell]
[birdsongs beckon, beak, peak]
[plinking plucks of kalimba bubble awe]
[a casio crescendo beside notifications that echo]
[natural sounds glimmer in sparkle]
[ambient swells and vocalisations lull and lure]
[sirened saxophone within synthesis of sound]
[textures twinkle amongst birdsongs accompanying alexadexa]
[a cinematic static centres songspell]
[gentle textures sweep as saxophone sings]
[woodwind wonderment transports our intentions]
[glitching realities buffer beauty in refinement]
[ethereal vocals layer liminal fx and tones]
[synthesised synthesis simmer and string the care of the kalimba]
[ascension and descension ebb and flow, free tones in timeless timbre]
[massaged melody sonically floss curiosity]
[tingles and twinkles dynamically dream]
[melodica moments muse and mingle amongst vocalisations of hope and movement]
[ethereal songspells hover above sectioned saxophone and layered vocalisations]
[meandering melodies echo and bleed into being]
[gentle wonderment glisten and glitch as xylophone slides into surrender]
[humms hymn heavenly]
[vocal tones tickle woodwind chime]
[wonderment whispers through crip ancestors]
[ambient vocalisations lullaby and linger]
[toy harps unearth realisation and revelation]
[reversals rip and flip gracious glitch]
[tentative twinkles build and buffer slicing sonic wander]
[xylophone tone and twitch curiosity amongst strings of revs and flips]
[algorithmic realisations bestow wonderment]
[meditative musings of melody merge with sweet singing]
[textures merge and meld in indistinct anticipation]
[swelling strings blink beside welcoming whispers of ambient wonderment]
