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A jolt of blue

Un colpo di Blu
Irene Ferrara / Compagnia Arearea e Compagnia degli Istanti
2025

Blue arrives late, elusive.
For a long time it remained on the margins, far from fabrics, invisible to language: more absence than color. It takes its place among colors like weeping in the throat, grief in the heart: silent, yet with no way out.

Blue is solitary presence. It is anesthetized space, a silent witness.
It is a telephone that is a trap, or perhaps a window.
Who is behind that receiver changes every night.
Maybe no one, maybe all those you never had the chance to say goodbye to.
A voice that knows your name but no longer speaks it.
A voice you know but can no longer pronounce.
Maybe it is you, from another place in time, calling to know if you still exist.

Everything descends into sleepless blue.
Echo of a memory that won’t fade, of a melancholy that seeks no resolution.
Feathers fall like promises.
Beautiful but empty.
Blue too, if you look closely.