CHANGER OF THE HEART
An interactive evening of music, writing and photography

©Patricia Curtis

©Patricia Curtis

Originally created as a project for a Museum installation which takes Rossetti’s Victorian painting “Venus Verticordia” (The Changer of the Heart) as a starting point, the piece has evolved and transformed into what is now an audiovisual short story, a 3D postcard.

In “Changer of the Heart”, writer/singer Véronique ‘Orange’ Joly, guitarist Rob Palmer and photographer Patricia Curtis combine shimmering “soundscapes” with song, spoken text and photography to take us on a journey of discovery: from cityscapes to inscapes, from closed-in spaces to open pathways, we travel off-frame, re-visiting a mythical place where everything has been kept intact. Here, where past meets present, the female character’s goddess-like beauty is revealed in an interplay of words, sounds and multi-layered images, which unmask the beauty of Creation.

Read an extract from the play

Credits:
Text & original idea by Véronique ‘Orange’ Joly
Music by Rob Palmer
Additional music by guest musicians Cathy Stevens (6 string Violectra) and Udo Dzierzanowski (Guitar)
Song by Véronique ‘Orange’ Joly & Rob Palmer
Photography by Patricia Curtis

To be performed at:
-15 February 2005 at The DE MORGAN Centre, London - a Pre-Raphaelite museum dedicated to the art of Evelyn & William De Morgan.
-Central Club, College of Arts, London, January 2004
-Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset, July 2004