Orbis by Aida Shirazi
Born and raised in Tehran, Aida's stop motion animated video piece will be based on a quatrain of classical poet Omar Khayyam on the paradoxical duality of the human condition.
Music and translation by: Aida Shirazi
Voice & electronics: Aida Shirazi
Text by: Omar Khayyam
Text:
We are the true essence of felicity and sorrow,
We are the source of justice and oppression,
We are low and high; we are perfection and failure,
We are a tarnished mirror, and a celestial crystal
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