SALAD DAYS

Salad Days is an experiential sound-walk that immerses the listener into the inner-life of Rosemary Yilmaz-Garcia, a lonely childless thirty-something who longingly waits for her husband’s return home from work on a mid-winter’s night. Gazing out the window of her suburban home, we enter her thoughts on the type of evening that’s becoming increasingly routine, following her footfalls from their front hall to the kitchen where she goes about her nightly ritual of dinner prep. These windows serve as portholes for Rosemary to peer through the looking-glass of her own heart and mind, as she contemplates sunnier times and reminisces on her “salad days” as she prepares a salad for supper. By way of her cozy house, her refrigerator, and memories, we traverse with her the poles of winter and summer in this series of nesting containers, wherein we explore notions of storage and preservation, and tumble into a reflection on aging, love, and loss.