an impossible allegory, Matthew Arthur Williams
digital video w/sound, 6mins 40secs, 2019

An Impossible Allegory clings to the physical yet intangible loss of love.
It uses fabrics to address a motion of time, infiltrating personal histories as it please but being very much so effected by it.
Part romanticism, part reality the complex allegory takes this New York Times article highlighting the past relationship of sound composer Julius Eastman and poet R. Nemo Hill decades ago and goes on to weave it with Hill's very own poem The Mandarin Orange Tree published in When Men Bow Down to merge these realms together.