Greetings!
Danièle Lorise Watts and Brian James Lucas here. We are honored by your interest in our project, Terrifying Lightness of Whiteness (#TLOW911) : the world’s first climate adaptive spontaneously recorded docufiction musical!
At its core, our project is an artistic examination of the connection that exists in some form across every culture, country and continent in the world—an energetic union as esoteric and symbolic as it is consequential: marriage.
Though physical expression is the catalyst of all of our lives, we learned from studying the various dynamic words written and spoken about us (sparked from a September 11, 2014 PDA incident and 911 call near CBS Radford Studios in Los Angeles into a globally publicized and discourse provoking news story) that there was trauma and longing for remembrance surrounding the subject of our bodies—that we had invoked—that required radical action on our part to return a sense of sustainable loving unity to our shared existence.
When the fires came for Los Angeles in January 2025, a culmination of mystical and seemingly supernatural events guided us away from our Southern California birthplace and home base, to the Hawaiian Islands, where we lived unhoused, without phone service, owning only the belongings we could carry, mostly on the Island of Maui, and did our best to bring more loving awareness to the concept that the universe itself is a home we all share, by using our iPhone 11 to translate our musical experience as a work of entertainment we have shared for free as a form of earth service.
Since many millions viewed the articles and tv newscasts of our previous story from the 911 call that happened on 9/11/2014, the easiest way for us to relate the scope and impact of our project is through translating what would otherwise be called an artist's statement into a press release available in link below, press "read more".
Supplemental Soundtrack on SoundCloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/polyamorousfamulus
Extended Scenes and Teaser From Terrifying Lightness of Whiteness (#TLOW911) on YouTube:
@Polyamorous Famulus https://m.youtube.com/@polyamorousfamulus
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Thanks for reading our story. We have completed our time in the State of Hawai’i, and have returned to Los Angeles to continue integrating and creating our project.