"The powerful balance of this performance comes from the juxtaposition between natural and supernatural, slow and fast, minuscule and enormous. In observing a tiny nymph creature attempt to rectify the destruction of climate change on her environment in minute detail, the unbearable weight of human environmental destruction becomes palpable. Her perseverance at an apparently futile task is poignant but painful. This is but one nymph and one poem but the dried up river beds are innumerable.“

 

POEM FOR A DRIED UP RIVER

Poem by Alice Oswald

Composition Jane Sheldon

Co-created by Jane Sheldon & Elizabeth Gadsby

Photography Lisa Tomesetti