Future Mythologies: Penny
Penelope tires of waiting and weaving for Oydsseus, and instead takes flight.
Future Mythologies is a collaboration between Anne Spalter and Nathaniel Stern for theVERSEverse’s GenText series. It’s a series of 12 poems written in collaboration with text-based AIs, incorporated into videos produced with the help of text-to-image AI. Each explores a character from Greek mythology, with a sci-fi twist. Written and performed by Stern, video art by Spalter.
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PENNY
Waiting for the future Please hold this thread as I fly away Please hold the line; I’ve been waiting Just one more minute? Imagine Imagining, Imaginal, Image, Imaging I’m aging
I’m fraying, I’m frying, I’m going Up-up-up and away -way -way! I’m of the age I’m of this age, I’m of age I’m a mage without: spell, bewitchment, witching, witched I’m a woman of the mind. I’m a woman of memory. I’m Penelope: no longer waiting Instead, flying