an omniscience
an omniscience
The home we seek is in eternity;
The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea,
Of which your paradise is but a drop.
This ocean can be yours; why should you stop
Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?
Which matters more, the body or the soul?
Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole.
-Farid ud-Din Attar, Conference of the Birds (1177)
An omniscience is a body of work, part-based on the almost supernatural feats of the Arctic Tern - a bird that makes the longest annual migrations, traveling from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back - and part-inspired by the fantastical Simurgh - the elusive protagonist of Farid ud-Din Attar’s Conference of the Birds. Through these two birds, and the many lives they represent, the piece contemplates transformation, migration and collectivity.
an omniscience
a bird opera for flute, oboe, bass flute, bass clarinet, two orators and one conductor, 50 min, 2022
Image courtesy pietro bertora and andrea pizzalis.
an omniscience : the sanctuary
Healing Garden with bioremedial plants, kantha embroidery on indigo fabric and bird opera for four woodwinds, 2025
image courtesy pomelo/ibrahim alzeben