....whereof are you made...(That millions of strange shadows on you tend?) Performed by Ariel Mo.

The piece unfolds as three miniatures: I. Dream-vision, II. Heligan, III. Adonia. The piece is accompanied by an electronic track and audio-reactive visuals that are projected onto a canvas. The title, drawn from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 53, reflects a meditation on shadow and substance. Each movement responds to this by evoking a type of liminal space or a "Locus Amoenus" which is visually symbolized through 16mm footage. Moments of extended resonance suspend motion in the projected footage, creating the sensation of time stretching or freezing. In this way, sound becomes a force that not only occupies space, but alters temporal perception, blurring the boundary between presence and illusion. The footage moves between different film formats to distinguish between a sense of reality, memory and fantasy. "Shadow is the silhouette formed by a body that intercepts the sun's rays; a picture, reflection, or symbol. "Tend" means attend, follow as a servant, and is strictly appropriate to 'shadow' only in the first sense, though shadows is used here in the second… All men have one shadow each in the first sense; you being only one can yet cast many shadows, in the second sense, for everything good or beautiful is either a representation of you or a symbol of your merits." G.L. Kittridge, in Sonnets of Shakespeare