Estela Kamay - Shadowsensing

Originally released 16 March 2024, unlisted.
Written, Directed and Produced by Estela Kamay
Estela Kamay is Karin Louise Hermes and Caleb Lázaro Moreno (See Elem)
Locations filmed include:
Lawrence, Kansas
Seattle, Washington
Honolulu, Hawai'i
Höxter, Germany
Karin's sermon:
A discovery claimed, so the written word supersedes the centuries or millennia of narratives within the waters and cultures.
The mastery of the word as the mastery of mystery. It requires multitudes of kamay of hands and of energy to weave the subversion, to rewrite the narratives placed upon some of our knowledges.
Who controls the past now controls the future, who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the words, controls the narrative and the knowledge sought within. Who controls the liminal pacha, controls the revolutionary spacetime of the universe that is relationality. The mixing of the saltwater and the freshwater and the seafoam at this shoreline demonstrate the fertility and bounty of resources and vibrancy in the estuarine spaces.
The name of Wiracocha, the Pachacamac, the ordenador or orderer of chaos to meaning, a sorting of quanta in binary code of computers and computing, a foam from the sea of nothingness to something. The quantum foam of relative existence and creation is kaypacha.
33. A pacha and a patchwork of braided and quilted knowledge and wisdom
The gadget in my hand I type my notes in, unstructured and chaotic, sporadic in their being, made from ideas to material in words. A logic that requires patience and not urgency, so the care that each word choice from preposition to word order was released in can inhabit layers of profound meaning. Always beyond the explicit and the visible, a philosophy of loving the words and the wisdom previously unspoken or unwoven.
What trickery of being a Filipina not only proficient in English and German, selective in Spanish and French reinterpretation. Superimposing Hawaiian and Quechua philosophies, as well as Indonesian and Taíno word origins to the Greek and the Latin monopoly of rationality in words. To uncover and recover the meanings withheld in the languages of my ancestors before they became to be from the Philippines
34. The astrologer-poet, the philosopher of nature and society, unearthing the archaeology of cultural matters. Old things refound, rewound, to make new. Rewriting the histories of histories now new, forgotten or erased if ever written before.
Blips in spacetime and particles or waves that weigh on gravity when only observed and acknowledged. Being absent and present and undead as the memories, as fleeting as rivers are here or there in a moment to the next, in the rainfall down the valleys to the sea. And again in a cycle to return.
May this sermon open the gates and portals of knowledge that others have kept from being valued as knowledge, philosophy, and science…the cormorant and the bittern, the crane and the heron, the osprey and the owl, the condor and the hummingbird, the sky-goers of knowledge and seeking. The messengers of the gods within each speck of energy and matter and light reflected in mirrors of prisms of water droplets and stillwater, seen and unseen in the shadows of the senses.