It seemed like time to write Binda herself a praise song.

I had in mind her signature “energy lines,” and also her “Bark Imprint” and “Grasp” series of works. (See photo gallery below.)

I also found myself thinking of a snippet of a New Yorker article that I keep on my desk, about artist Josef Albers:

In fact this song is full of allusions. Binda and I have spoken many times about the red thread of aliveness, and she’s done whole works based on the concept. “Stand beside me and we’ll sing it” is a reference to a trip we made up to Maine last summer with another friend and artist, Kyra Kristof, and a practice of sound-making the three of us experimented with over the week. Maine is also evident in the Morse code of the sunglitter, which Binda called our attention to and captured on video (and which will reappear in Movements 10 and 11). And Kyra makes another appearance in the line, “You are the wavelength of a waterfall — every overtone, every overtone,” which is a reference to a conversation she had with musician/teacher/magician/guru Jonathan Stancato, who offers a sound-and-self-making methodology called Inside Voice, and who Binda, Kyra, and I all study/work/play with (single words are not enough to describe the people in these sentences, obviously).