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Symbiotic ladders

from Incorporate by Essex Olivares

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Most relationships in nature are win-lose. Predator and prey. A chain of grisly competition. The delight of winning supersedes any other impulse in this type of relationship.

Some relationships however are win-win.

Bees, for example, travel from flower to flower drunk with an insatiable appetite for the next flower’s nectar. Each time that bee reaches the depth of a flower’s chamber, it gets dusted with the flower’s pollen. As the bee continues on its search for more nectar, it carries, whether conscious of this or not, the previous flower’s pollen to the next. The bee’s promiscuity aids in the flower’s subtle method of reproduction.

An even closer example is happening in your body at this moment. The food you consume is digested through a series of processes happening in your mouth, esophagus, stomach, large and small intestines. Inside of your body there are millions of friendly bacteria that aid you in digesting by digesting themselves the food you consumed. These bacteria, though they are within your body, are biologically distinct from you. But you both work together to achieve the same goal: satisfaction.

Can we both climb a ladder at the same time without pushing one another off?

Would you help me if I was falling?

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from Incorporate, released February 8, 2014

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Eve Essex Brooklyn, New York

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Eve Essex performs with winds, voice and electronics, harnessing elements of distorted pop, avant-jazz, chamber music and drone.

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