I was inspired to create a sound piece based off of a poem that my Grandmother wrote. She passed away in February 2014 after a horrible two month long battle with cancer and the poem was found while preparing for her memorial service. The poem about love is written in two stanzas. These two stanzas are representative of the two marriages she had. She was with her first husband Bernie for 22 years until he was tragically killed in a train accident. Later in life she married Jack who she had been with for 21 years until she passed in 2014.

In this piece I am reading the poem. The sounds which I recorded in Washington Square Park are matched to represent the different times in her life which are outlined in the poem. The sounds tell a chronological story of her life and of those she loved. It shows life, love, death, heartbreak, sorrow, love again, and then death, however the love lives on. 

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