3589: Salt tears

Cannaregio boat and street works in Venice reimagined by Moana McReynolds.

"I was inspired to research the neighborhood of my sample and was interested to learn that this was the site of the world’s first Jewish Ghetto. From this starting point I was led to the story of “Sarra Copia Sulam (d. 1641) , renowned for having written a Manifesto in which she upholds the principle of the immortality of the soul as applicable both to Christians and to Jews. With this work Copia enters the annals of one of the most heated controversies of her age and secures a unique place for herself within Italian literature.”

"Learning about her life, courage and struggles led me to her writings. I found a sonnet that reads as a prayer to god to silence the tongues of those who are causing her anguish by their malice and false words. I was inspired to loop the water and construction noises from your sample into a steady rhythm along with drum in 3/4 time. 

"The water and construction sounds could symboliz