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This is the script for "Picture This". If you are here, it is because you scanned the QR Code at the beginning of the show to have a visual aid for the spoken program notes. Do not continue if you do not want to see the words before they happen!
Words:
Picture this: A single, dark, square.
No light. No data. Just, dark.
(Picture this echo)
A single, light, square.
No darkness this time, but, no data.
Picture this: Emptiness. Which is it, do you think?
Is it the single, dark, square? (Shift between dark and light with fading)
Or is it the single, light, square?
Are they both empty, or are neither?
What is emptiness? What is blank? And what is a picture?
Picture this: A single light square, with a single black dot.
Is meaning here? (One) Or do we need another? (Two)
This means…. Two.
Picture two.
Is this two?
Two….
Two.
Picture this: Two…. Black…. Dots…..
A line.
Is this two?
No
This is…
One.
Picture this.
One line has made two…. One. But….
How is an image made?
Here was one image with just three shapes.
What about something more complex?
More and more elements form, to make story.
In Haleakala National Park, solid earth meets with fluid weather.
An image in motion.
As a musician improvises, a musical image takes shape.
As clouds break, earth’s imagery is revealed.
A camera only senses what people show it.
Take… the earth.
It is very difficult to see the whole earth.
A camera can only see part of the earth.
If you were to take the earth, and shrink it, along with all its mountains, valleys, and canyons, to the size of a marble, it would be smoother than the smoothest object that humans could make.
The earth is round.
Even with the vast landscapes, valleys, mountains, hills, and seas,
The earth is round
And the camera doesn't see this roundness
People can't see the roundness. People are too close. People are limited. People are limited in their minds, perspectives, and worlds.
People have fear.
Fear cannot be photographed- fear can only be spoken, heard, or created.
People fear the earth and what it holds.
People don't always blend with nature. Often, they mold it.
Possums build dens, beavers build dams, and people build cities.
Just like animals congregate near water people congregate and construct near water.
People can be afraid of nature, so they hide it and bind it.
Everything reflects or emits light.
Light flies around space in particles that travel 299 792 458 meters per second. Light, across short distances, is nearly instantaneous.
Yet, sometimes, somehow, there seems to be no motion.
A stillness, reflected in….
This picture...
These pictures.
We can see it a bit differently now.
Maybe we can see all pictures, for all their parts.
Picture this....
Picture this.....
Where we started,
Now we're here.
Images tell story. Our story, their story, the world's story.
The pictures aren't the stories themselves.... we are the story. We make the story.
Images can only help.
Picture This
Picture this: A single, dark, square.
No light. No data. Just, dark.
(Picture this echo)
A single, light, square.
No darkness this time, but, no data.
Picture this: Emptiness. Which is it, do you think?
Is it the single, dark, square? (Shift between dark and light with fading)
Or is it the single, light, square?
Are they both empty, or are neither?
What is emptiness? What is blank? And what is a picture?
Picture this: A single light square, with a single black dot.
Is meaning here? (One) Or do we need another? (Two)
This means…. Two.
Picture two.
Is this two?
Two….
Two.
Picture this: Two…. Black…. Dots…..
A line.
Is this two?
No
This is…
One.
Picture this.
One line has made two…. One. But….
How is an image made?
Here was one image with just three shapes.
What about something more complex?
More and more elements form, to make story.
In Haleakala National Park, solid earth meets with fluid weather.
An image in motion.
As a musician improvises, a musical image takes shape.
As clouds break, earth’s imagery is revealed.
A camera only senses what people show it.
Take… the earth.
It is very difficult to see the whole earth.
A camera can only see part of the earth.
If you were to take the earth, and shrink it, along with all its mountains, valleys, and canyons, to the size of a marble, it would be smoother than the smoothest object that humans could make.
The earth is round.
Even with the vast landscapes, valleys, mountains, hills, and seas,
The earth is round
And the camera doesn't see this roundness
People can't see the roundness. People are too close. People are limited. People are limited in their minds, perspectives, and worlds.
People have fear.
Fear cannot be photographed- fear can only be spoken, heard, or created.
People fear the earth and what it holds.
People don't always blend with nature. Often, they mold it.
Possums build dens, beavers build dams, and people build cities.
Just like animals congregate near water people congregate and construct near water.
People can be afraid of nature, so they hide it and bind it.
Everything reflects or emits light.
Light flies around space in particles that travel 299 792 458 meters per second. Light, across short distances, is nearly instantaneous.
Yet, sometimes, somehow, there seems to be no motion.
A stillness, reflected in….
This picture...
These pictures.
We can see it a bit differently now.
Maybe we can see all pictures, for all their parts.
Picture this....
Picture this.....
Where we started,
Now we're here.
Images tell story. Our story, their story, the world's story.
The pictures aren't the stories themselves.... we are the story. We make the story.
Images can only help.
Picture This