For their first piece since their first piece, Ana and Lane thought about navigating co-dependence—by submersion into the ocean. With the singiest of whales. Who else would one want to submerse with?
Ana Garcia is a composer of songs and theater. Her original musicals Bomba and the Coqui (book co-written by Lou Rodgers) and Salvador (book and lyrics by Lane Dombois) have been performed in NYC and Jersey City, and her songs (sometimes performed by Ana herself) at many venues throughout both cities.
For Submersible, Ana is constructing a sound environment that conveys the intimate majesty and lolling indifference of the ocean. Perturbing the depths of which are starving humpbacks and a girl who's hesitating to dive but swimming. One always swims from at the same time one swims to.
And—if one's lucky—the dandelions sing far away:
I WANT YOU AWAY
FLORET! AND FLORET!
AND FLORET AND FLORET AND FLORET!
BUT IT'S NOT BECAUSE I DON'T LOVE YOU.
THE WIND WILL TAKE YOU
WHERE WIND GOES,
YOU MUST TRUST IT,
FLORET.
TRUST THE WIND TO TAKE YOU FAR.
RELEASED TO THE SKY,
FLORET! AND FLORET!
AND FLORET AND FLORET AND FLORET AND FLORET!
FIND A PATCH OF DIRT THAT'S FAR FROM HERE.
THE DIRT WILL TAKE YOU
WHERE THE WIND PLACES YOU,
AND THERE YOU'LL SIT,
FLORET.
LEARN THE DIRT WILL TAKE YOU IN.
Last May, Ana and Lane gathered some fellow writers on a remote video call, and the first half of Submersible was spoken by others for the first time as a narrative. Where the migration goes is as murky as the marine-snow filled waters, but it's gatherings (however remote) like these that illuminate a bit where the wind and currents will direct.