Give me back into the earth,
Grow from my sins and glory,
An entirely different story,
Grow it into the passionate skies of the stormy night,
I regret only the parts of myself that I left to the fire side of wants.
There was once a chance to be what I believe,
Climb the heights of Paradise and never once concede
The thunder of youth brought me to my knees and now I lay in a cradle of leaves.
Give me back to the first soil,
Emboldened in the fresh oil,
The swirling stuff of life,
The rose in my heart and the toil in my eyes.
When I thought I was immortal,
I told the buried book in the garden of lies,
That this is my art,
And the rose burst into the skies,
The fruit of life rots and falls from the branches,
I fell asleep under the destiny of the banished.
There was once a chance to be what I believe,
Climb the heights of Paradise and never once concede
The thunder of youth brought me to my knees and now I lay in a cradle of leaves.
Music, Sound, Poetry and Performance by Laurence Fuller @laurencefuller
~ http://laurencefuller.art
Visuals (Photography, ai, animation) by Victoria West @vwestphoto_nb
~ http://victoriawestportrait.com
About the artists
Victoria West is an activist, story teller and a Master of Photographic Arts, who's work is inspired by what she cares most deeply about. With a painterly style, her photographic composites are entirely lit, composed, shot and edited by Victoria. Her attention to detail and craft has won her many awards. She has been a member of Team Canada in the World Photographic Cup 2019, 2020, 2021, & 2022, and brought home a bronze medal in 2019. She’s also made history by being awarded the title of Portrait Photographer of the Year, 2019, 2020 & 2021, by the Professional Photographers of Canada.
Laurence Fuller is a professional actor in film, television and theatre of 17 years. Graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School specializing in Classical Theatre, after that he went into West End theatre in London and was soon cast in lead roles in a number of feature films in Los Angeles and most recently as the British painter David Hockney in HBO’s MINX. The art world has been around Laurence his whole life through his late father the art critic Peter Fuller and painter mother Stephanie Fuller, he worked at a number of galleries and auction houses while auditioning. The deeper he dug into his late father’s writing he discovered what he really wanted was to be a poet, and his love for the poet / art critic Baudelaire and the Romantics. Laurence went on his own journey with autobiographical poetry inspired by his training in the classics, paintings and visual art. But it wasn’t until the digital art movement in web3 that allowed Laurence to combine his love for cinema, poetry, performance and art history into a single practice.