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Cliffs, Vultures & Cycles of Death
Cliffs,Vultures & Cycles of Death features recordings of various places I have visited in the last 2 years that had impacted me for teaching me about the edgy steepness steps between life and death. Sharing the same location with dozens of griffon vultures and reflecting about their role in the ecosystems they inhabit – and once again I find myself interested in scavengers – has made me face what troubles me about death, about many ways of dying and living.
The presumed harshness of “disappearing” to become “nothing” via some belief systems, made us forget that, by offering our bodies when the time comes, we too should be part of the nutrient cycle, of which vultures, somehow, sit right on a imagined portal. I see them flying over my head majestically and I listen to them cutting through the air, looking for nourishment, protecting their young in the nests, wings flapping loudly enough to be heard from a distance.