PERMANENTLY HUMAN

Ep.2 PLEASING PROPORTIONS


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A fall into and over the shapes that words find on a page, and the capacity that old words have to be able to sing to us as relevantly now as when they were composed. This episode touches on the story of Persephone and Hades and explores a little, the balance finding between correlated opposites. Dipping into cycles of birth and decline, symbolism of fertility through story telling, the keeping of order through music - Rilke's Sonnet's to Orpheus and snippets from Han Kang's book 'Vegetarian' all feature in this episode.
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PERMANENTLY HUMANBy Joanna Long