Language of Fire by Anahita Bradberry
Show Me a Dawn
Featuring Anahita Bradberry, Hayley Morrison, Jamal Hussain, Jay Jones, Justo Cisneros, Kira Matica, and Noelle Fitzsimmons
September 9th - 23rd, 2023
Opening Reception: September 9th, 7-11pm
Open Hours: Saturday, September 16th & 23rd, 12-6pm
Closing Reception: September 23rd, 7-11pm
Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid sky
On summer nights, star of stars,
Orion's Dog they call it, brightest
Of all, but an evil portent, bringing heat
And fevers to suffering humanity.
- Homer's Iliad
Show me a dawn like a rising star that becomes visible before sunrise.
Gift me a star after the earth orbits the sun, one heralded by dawn and granted by Sirius. Take me to the genesis of the pattern, before the fall, before the emergence of recursive time.
Show me a dawn before technological accomplishment defined our ecological collapse.
Gift me a moment devoid of natural disasters, madness, and the dog days of summer heat steeped in Luciferian ritual. Take me to that moment of dawn like a rising star.
Show me a dawn before the fall when the garden still existed within us, before the rising star, before the serpent and the apple, before the patterns and the quantified human soul. Show me the dawn of now, a dawn for every morning of seven days and seven stars, a dawn we carry and that carries us.
Collaborative text by Leslie Moody Castro and Sean Gaulager