This peice comes to us at a perfect time, our minds needing a more intimate look at gender and genital issues. It's interesting, sad, enriching, intense, informing, fulfilling...I was interested in the wife's (and culture's) homophobic response, (that severing withdrawal of her hand in public.) Also, the shock on the children, and lack of shock- kids are so creative...I had never imagined that point of view... This is a sad story, so intense and full of suffering, and yet it's also a story of liberation and fulfillment; the final maturation of a healing process the family and community supported and encouraged. This short piece condenses a huge world into a rare gem shining into a facet of our collective story worth a more intimate look, especially considering we are all still participating in a culture war. With Kirby's work, we can enter the world with a more genuine perspective, a more informed perspective, and therefore, this art transforms. It's and artifact, it's an embrace, from our collective future, because it's expressing (and invoking!) a bigger heart and mind. As Eric said, this is an affecting, honest, and well-mixed human interest piece. What to go Kirby!
Having co-produced a piece this year about a woman grieving for her late transgendered husband ("How Are You Who You Are?"), it was fascinating for me to hear this dispatch from the eye of the storm. In my piece we heard from a woman who learned to live with her husband's predilection for cross-dressing. Here one has the advantage of hearing from both parties, a wife and her transgendered husband, now a woman, and the result is a painful but human glimpse into a marriage that couldn't compromise. No fairy tale endings here. It just didn't work.
I could have done without the metronome-like soundtrack pulsing throughout, but on the whole, this is an affecting, honest, and well-mixed human interest piece. Bravo.
Thank you both for your lovely comments! When I uploaded this piece originally, I put an .mp3 of "Love Triangle" into protools so that I could bounce it as a .WAV file to make it compatible with the PRX .Mp2 encoder. However, when you open a new session in my version of protools it automatically comes with a metronome track: thus, the beeps/ticks - what have you. I've gone through that process again, this time silencing the metronome. I'm glad you've enjoyed it!
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david titterington
Posted on January 10, 2009 at 11:27 PM | Permalink
Good Alchemical Art
This peice comes to us at a perfect time, our minds needing a more intimate look at gender and genital issues. It's interesting, sad, enriching, intense, informing, fulfilling...I was interested in the wife's (and culture's) homophobic response, (that severing withdrawal of her hand in public.) Also, the shock on the children, and lack of shock- kids are so creative...I had never imagined that point of view... This is a sad story, so intense and full of suffering, and yet it's also a story of liberation and fulfillment; the final maturation of a healing process the family and community supported and encouraged. This short piece condenses a huge world into a rare gem shining into a facet of our collective story worth a more intimate look, especially considering we are all still participating in a culture war. With Kirby's work, we can enter the world with a more genuine perspective, a more informed perspective, and therefore, this art transforms. It's and artifact, it's an embrace, from our collective future, because it's expressing (and invoking!) a bigger heart and mind. As Eric said, this is an affecting, honest, and well-mixed human interest piece. What to go Kirby!
what's with the beeps? very distracting.
Eric Winick
Posted on December 20, 2008 at 11:16 AM | Permalink
Raw, honest, emotional
Having co-produced a piece this year about a woman grieving for her late transgendered husband ("How Are You Who You Are?"), it was fascinating for me to hear this dispatch from the eye of the storm. In my piece we heard from a woman who learned to live with her husband's predilection for cross-dressing. Here one has the advantage of hearing from both parties, a wife and her transgendered husband, now a woman, and the result is a painful but human glimpse into a marriage that couldn't compromise. No fairy tale endings here. It just didn't work.
I could have done without the metronome-like soundtrack pulsing throughout, but on the whole, this is an affecting, honest, and well-mixed human interest piece. Bravo.
Victor Castillo
Posted on July 23, 2009 at 01:42 PM | Permalink
makes u think....
it's just awesome and really makes u think of how love works!!
Lauren Kirby
Posted on May 30, 2009 at 06:48 PM | Permalink
"Beeps" fixed!
Thank you both for your lovely comments! When I uploaded this piece originally, I put an .mp3 of "Love Triangle" into protools so that I could bounce it as a .WAV file to make it compatible with the PRX .Mp2 encoder. However, when you open a new session in my version of protools it automatically comes with a metronome track: thus, the beeps/ticks - what have you. I've gone through that process again, this time silencing the metronome. I'm glad you've enjoyed it!
cheers!
Lauren