title. echoes of a wasted silence
date. February 2020
copyright voiceHOUSE Productions
Fear is the opposite of love, but do not confuse the term 'opposite' with 'enemy.' Fear serves an essential purpose: to illuminate love and to serve as a creative onus for love. Without fear, there could not be love. This work was motivated by fear, but ultimately speaks to love.
October Tierney and his wife Tika are creators- creators of human life. Death's relationship with life is the same as fear's relationship with love. Relationships are complicated, especially when they are acted out along mythic storylines. To be born a woman, a man, and to become a god- to become a steward of another life- this is drama of the divine. To suffer, however, is human. And faced with the tragedy of losing their creation, their only son Namdev, the Tierneys are propelled along different paths to reconcile their humanity with divinity, their fear with love, their remorse with hope. To reconcile and remain intact, integral- this is their challenge- to claim their birthright and fulfill the duty of their own temporal expression amidst their extreme pain. Their resolution is not found in an act or an idea, a creed or a temple, but rather occurs as a quiet meditation upon one fundamental contradiction which rests in the center of reality: in the end, nothing is ever born, and nothing ever dies.
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