2014, 00:06:55, Still-motion Video and Soundscape.

30°27′46″ N 78°3′59″ E-29°38′59″N 91°05′59″ E

This piece analyses exile and the resistance to let go of what was left behind through landscape and sound. At the same time exploring the loneliness and longing that diaspora can cause. In this piece I was not seeking to convey a religious theme, yet I employed prayers sung by Tibetan monks as raw material.

At the beginning of the video it displays the coordinates for Mussoorie in India (30°27′46″ N 78°3′59″ E). This is the place where the first governing body outside of Tibet was established in 1959, and the site in which I gathered some field material for this piece. First, we hear a monk chanting in his voice he is one, an individual expressing a longing for what was dispossessed. Second, we hear a choir of monks, and within the video's narrative this is meant as a reply “You're there but we're still here, that which you yearn for still exists”. Last, the landscape changes ever so slightly, and another set of coordinates appear on screen. The call got to its final destination, through the mountains and into Garzê (29°38′59″N 91°05′59″ E) a Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and the site where the choir of monks was recorded.

This piece was part of the 2014 National Landscape Bienniale, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Mexico City, Mexico.