One body in motion, then another, the simple joy of moving together. A pack forms.
The pack becomes a crowd. The crowd becomes a stampede. Somewhere in there, without anyone deciding, play turns into competition and competition turns into something older and worse. Bodies collide. Bodies fall.
The oldest story we have plays out again: one figure standing over another, the ground beneath them the same ground we've been fighting on since the beginning. Someone wins. But what?
Set to a personal remix of "Help Me Somebody," built from the stems David Byrne and Brian Eno opened to the public in 2006 for the reissue of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
Midjourney, Seedance 2.
