{Pockets of possibility} Shadows in the Nighttime Circus: Split Skate Reel
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Inside the Creation Stories of Dancing Mother
Pockets of possibility
Shadows in the Nighttime Circus: SpLit Skate Reel
by Mother Mother Binahkaye Joy
Mother Mother finds a delicious moment for the movement amidst lively munchkin shenanigans. It’s nighttime, and hours away from when munchkins will be sleeping. Their energy is high and they are finding joy in moving across the space without being able to see, because they’re under an opaque blanket! The trip and fall and collide and smash into Mother Mother’s dancing body, as she keeps her body in motion. Taking stills from the video, Mother Mother composes a split skate reel, a silent collage of images captured from the dance.
What are pockets of possibility?
As a multitudinous mothering entity who is holding, nursing, wearing, caring for, listening to, supporting, feeding, comforting, teaching, and being with one or more children at almost every minute of every day, Mother Mother dances, writes, and expands into all of her creations in the soft moments, or pockets of possibility, as they naturally arise throughout the swirls, pulses and undulations within any given span from one sunrise to the next. As her life is fluid and ever shifting, her rhythms of creating are unscripted and unordered, happening at all hours of the day. Mother Mother’s pockets of possibility evolve and stretch as wide and long, or as tight and short, as any single moment can make itself out to be. A fertility priestess for many years now, Mother Mother is well-practiced in making the most out of whatever seconds or minutes, and occasionally an hour or two, are available. She lives inside the knowing: Time is all we have. We have all the time we need.
