Friday, January 9. Anytime between 10:00am-5:30pm visit
@forestlawnmuseum Greek Overlook to experience sound recordings by
@paulinelay and
@hersemarcus inspired by the Oracular Pronouncement “On Reaching the End, Be Without Sorrow.” This series is in collaboration with
@therealkimschoen @onesoundobject and Forest Lawn Museum’s current group show, In Bloom.
“A person’s life is filled with connection and experience, however largely they’ve lived. In our shared timeline, at this particular moment we’re in right now, memories/media/records of thought are readily accessible with only the lens of modernity to evolve their meaning. What has happened doesn’t disappear. Moments are able to propagate or recur and be experienced anew by another person. The same is true for each person’s life. As I interpret this oracular pronouncement: Be gentle with yourself, see what you have been. Experience is valuable, whatever that experience may be, and cannot be denied or fully gone. We return back to the collective consciousness and continue without sorrow.
For my sound work, my lens is focused on the momentary connection and dissolution between me, my instrument, and other players, easing into the end and back again. Recorded in a collaborative string improvisation with Patrick Behnke and Nicki Chen as they ruminated on their oracular pronouncements.”
-Pauline Lay
“The harmonic series functions as a model of infinity and gives the work its conceptual ground. The title, drawn from the 147th Delphic maxim, On reaching the end, be without sorrow, frames the piece as a study of continuity rather than closure. Each modulation between sound and silence marks a passage of emergence and withdrawal, suggesting that beginnings and endings are simultaneous. Within this logic, the end persists as a recurring rather than a final form. The work is played from 4:30 to 5:30 pm on January 9, 2026, encompassing the 5:02 pm sunset.”
-Marcus Herse
