(your) long journey is a home video of volatile history passed through oral tradition. Portions are lost, recovered, added, and highlighted as it passes through time. The delicacy and determination of this form is meant to travel, and transfigure, and eventually die away. Here, it is a recording of the Watson Family playing "your long journey", my parents' version of the same song, and my voice singing with my parents' recording. As I sing, my reflection in the glass that is covering a photograph of my parents, is caused to flicker. The Watson Family singers, my parents, and I, shimmer at once (as a ghost does) on the threshold of time.
(your) long journey from Emily Atchison on Vimeo.