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The Sun Came Out
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I. The Sun Came Out
Twenty-five years ago, after a long and dismal winter of leaden skies, the sun came out.
[…] Barefoot, I left the dorm. The heat was mild and glorious. My classmates, in various states of undress, lay splayed on stone benches, talking softly or napping in clumps like seals while the dirty snow melted around them. I sat on the sun-soaked concrete steps of the dorm, needless of any possessions, resenting no one and nothing except my clothes, which I badly wanted to take off.
-from The Splendors of Lying Naked in the Sun, Salvatore Scibona
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The Desire
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II. The Desire
This would become a theme, the desire to be naked in the sun. Maybe there once lived some hopeless person who never had the urge, but it feels as innate and universal as thirst.
[…] When you sunbathe naked, you are subjecting yourself to the same condition and to the same star as every creature that ever crept or crawled into the daylight without recourse to underpants. The pleasure is both carnal and otherworldly. Nothing civilization has to offer can compete.
-from The Splendors of Lying Naked in the Sun, Salvatore Scibona
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Blood Red, Leaves Green
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III. Blood Red, Leaves Green
[…] That year, I learned in a reading group that the molecular structures of hemoglobin and chlorophyll resemble each other almost exactly. In both molecules, more than a hundred atoms of hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon are arranged in identical concentric rings that surround a single atom of metal.
In hemoglobin, the atom is iron; in chlorophyll, the atom is magnesium. The molecule that makes our blood red and brings oxygen to our cells is nearly the same as the one that makes leaves green and allows them to create a plant’s food from carbon dioxide, water and light.
-from The Splendors of Lying Naked in the Sun, Salvatore Scibona
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Hiding Nothing
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IV. Hiding Nothing
[…] But the question remains why prostrating oneself naked to a fusion reaction of unimaginable violence can produce a feeling of such perfect peace.
When the sun is blazing and privacy allows, I sometimes take it all off and let the sun have at me. […] Your unexceptional body, your only creature — formed like everyone else’s in dependence on the particular spectrum of radiation emitted by this star — is living its only life.
Right now. Hiding nothing from the ongoing explosion that started it and sustains it. Sun, mind and body in agreement.
-from The Splendors of Lying Naked in the Sun, Salvatore Scibona
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Cameron Lam Melbourne, Australia
Composer, gamer, watercolourist, and Artistic Director of Kammerklang.
My music blurs classical and videogame music, bringing in cross-artform collaborations, spectralism, minimalism, and performer agency.
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