Parallel Universes for You & Me

This piece is very special to me -- it is about two different themes around the idea of "division" and "separateness" -- one being the kind of division that happens when two people are strongly connected to one another but they are living separate lives. There is a little bit of overlap, like what you would see in a Venn diagram, and that overlap represents the bond that unites them and what they have in common that keeps them connected, but essentially they live in two different universes living two different lives very much apart from each other. This aspect of the work was inspired by Beth Orton, an English singer/songwriter who wrote "look at me doing all these things without you..."

The other reference in this piece is about how divided and polarized we are right now as a nation --- yet we share the same physical spaces and we are all under that same big blue sky. Sometimes this division is in the same home or family unit, a work team, a neighborhood. We are living in parallel universes side by side and our commonality, that part of the Venn diagram that overlaps, is getting smaller and smaller.