Birds
of paradise is - al dow she passed away already many years
ago - a homage to my mother.
It
contains the following
- a
story which will give an impression about my
inspiration for this item
- a
digital movie inspired by the music of Snowy White
- a
selection of stills used for the movie
My
mother passed away at the respectable age of eighty-seven
years old. A couple of years before she surprisingly asked
us at her funeral to play Birds of paradise by
Snowy White. Cause she never had
been able to make such wishes real lucid, it took
quite some effort to understand which music was she choose.
Mothers
life was like a sort of ever lasting pilgrimage to the only
place she ever felt warm and safe. Like a little
birdie which had been whipped out of the
nest, just because she didn't fit in. Without a good
reason for it my grandmother found the birth of this
daughter a burden she wasn't willing to take up.
'That's why the baby, merely three weeks old, was sent to a
farmers family who took her in with open arms and took care
of her till her puberty. A couple of times a year the lady
traveled out to the country side. With no love in her eyes,
but with arms filled up with the wrong sort of presents her
daughter only felt embarrassed about.