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Ecstasy
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A duet between James E. Kenward performing his poem ‘Ecstasy’ and Bota Zakir playing Alexandre Skryabin’s Opus 11, Prelude No. 8, a piece of music that evokes feelings of water and flight; to swoop and to plunge
James E. Kenward’s poem ‘Ecstasy’, featured in ‘Key and Other Poems’, was originally inspired by a painting by Max Ernst, of a child flying, lip first. The painting was found above the doorway of French surrealist poet Paul Eluard’s house, and subsequently moved to a private collection in Matisse’s old home on the Cote d’Azur when Eluard’s house in Paris was demolished.
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Camera Work: Mario Voit