CROW SPACE

(HIFI Stereo VHS Video - 23 minutes)

Crow space is a surreal documentary of the life and times

of a crow in the late twentieth century.

How does foundling crow, Rosetta, perceive the world?

This surreal documentary speculates on the experience of the avian orphan, reared and recorded by award winning photographer Patrick Wey. The animated photography carries the viewer into new realms for anthrocentric eyes and does so in a most pleasurable fashion.

 

Crow Space

 

Silently the crow spoke

on a shore of babbling tongue

Silver black against a weary sky

sound beyond the ear

still upon the soul

"there is a way into this

just along this crooked trail,

ask the snake

at the end, the gate

she'll tell you what you need to know

be patient

don't be late"

 

The door folded

across a broken lake the sky dead

in a ditch

nothing was the way it was

everything in a twist

my spirit searched, it soared

upon this jagged trail

There were cars, boats, planes

dreams out of control

synthetic sex, tv

crippling side effects

a whole universe, a mess

inside this show

 

Down under, the red sand

eyes wide

ready across the dunes

something from the shadow

stretched across the sky

like a blanket, hovering another side

four long truths circled

to the centre i

was crow blue

as the blackest night

 

There is so much to say so little time

i quenched, i hopped

i could see there was no point

no telling

what the trickster

hides inside

i could see clear as if

for the first time

it is all a test

 

Now flying

my wings tough

against the wind

like a frozen lake

smashed against the sky

far below i could see myself

like a past upon a path

yelling up, watch

that fake glass

a barrier to the other side

 

All those dreams

on a long slow train

this steady hum of track and steel

rollin headin south

 

The vision, the focus

all those lives

all those hills

all my future squashed

all past pushed along this rail

 

My eyes closed

wings stretched to distance

claws clenched upon the edge

 

time come space

leave

fly

for evermore

evermore

crow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

words/images patrick wey