Sections of ‘Dreams’ by Crysse Morrison - for recording and playing with installation.
   
 
Angel Bride - 'Dreams'
   
   
 
  dreamed I grew wings, huge and silvery in the early light. I was delighted. I soared and flew to him.
   
  I dreamed I was running through a dark forest, not knowing why. Suddenly I remembered I could fly. Why hadn’t I done that before? I lifted from the ground and began to rise above the trees. From below I heard a voice say, You’re no angel. And I faltered. I am an angel, I insisted. See my wings, all spangled with diamonds. I reached to touch their glowing brilliance but they melted in my hand, they were not jewels at all, they were tears. I sank to the ground and woke shivering.
   
  What can you promise if you have no voice at all?
   
  I pulled him to me calling ‘Fly with me’ and he said, ‘Don’t be absurd. Those wings take up far too much space.’ He snapped them off and I awoke.
   
  Last night I dreamed I went to the place where I had hidden my wings. I had packed them carefully but as I began to unwrap them I found the coverings had been bleeding. I unwound and unwound for a long time, and the wrappings became like sodden bandages.
   
  I wanted to run but I could not leave this terrible place, a place between places, until I awoke.
   
  You did this. You left me here, ripped, torn apart, shorn of my wings.
   
  I knew it was my own voice
   
  Somewhere in the forest, crouching, naked, the woman who was me lies sobbing.
   
   
   
  Crysse Morrison 2003
   
   
 
 
 
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