Visions of Earth Rituals liberated
from the fetters of organized #religion… .  .    . 

A NEW TENEBRISM *—towards an Art as light as mountain air . . .

In Poetry and Photography, the title or frame creates a background shadow of knowledge of things implied, but left unsaid or unseen.

Out of this background emerge dramatically contrasted centers of light and focus.

The balance of the resulting pattern as a whole is its composition; the strength of emotion thus awakened, the depth of its expression.

* from the Latin, tenebrae = darkness, or play of primary the contrasts of white and black, light and shadow (q.v. HYMN below)

IMAGE: Eagle Cap, neutral center of the great wheel of turning energy, Eagle Cap Wilderness, the WALLOWAS, OREGON.

TENEBRAE, a soundpoem “Into the forgiving hands that seem to hold them both”

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
that makes the rest of nature jealous.

TENEBRAE, a soundpoem “Into the forgiving hands that seem to hold them both”

Cliff Crego