Air String – Nejc Kuhar This video is made in cooperation with acting student Eva Mareen. RAAS has already realised a project with her in the past and is hoping to do so again in the near future. I have loved the wintertime The fleeting and faded falling flurry petrified on overhanging trees the ermine blanches white bloodthirsty for hares’ throats. The snow dulls the din to a murmur, its crisping leaves no lingering distance to starch-stark trees the frost gives clarity I don’t give a damn about the summer Windows open to the madhouse Of the world. The text fragments come from two poems by Jan Wolkers: ‘I have loved the wintertime’ (1999) and ‘I don’t give a damn about the summer’ (2000). Ruth, the violinist, used his poems as a binder throughout her exam. We found the effect so powerful, that we wanted to share this fragment of it with you. This poetry contains beautiful images. Wolkers’ purpose is not to draw up complicated metaphors. Thus the atmospheric word paintings can be linked to the different moods of the music. Enjoy! Duo RAAS Marie-Lou Debels & Ruth Mareen https://www.facebook.com/duoRAAS duoraas@gmail.com