Event : SIPAF 2021 (Solidarity In Performance Art International Festival 2021)
Year (Date) : September 21, 2021
Media : Short Performance / Performance
Film Materials : Mirror, Landscape
Location : UP Grounds, University of the Philippines Diliman
Duration : 11 minutes
Performer(s) : Nerisa del Carmen Guevara
The Poet Looks at Herself in a Mirror
Hands over eyes, I speak to you and hear only myself form words
like "tree" and "dragon fruit."
What these images conjure is a time lost after its
speaking,
recovered as gesture.
A window framing a river is itself
not anymore scene but pastoral
And you, standing beside it, gone to seed--
A dream of an infant.
I move my hand over your face, my way of saying
"Gone."
This uncommon becoming, looking back:
“Worlds."
"Stay" in the forever looking.
The river bends like a lover's body stopping
To pick up a stone. The word is "divide."
The brush, held with an open palm
Falls.
