Creation Stories

and All the Important Importants

Centering on a midlife Black woman pulled between her many selves—child, future daughter, artist, possible mother—the play pulses with longing as its heroine races against the clock and the limits of her own body. Moving across time and space, from ancestor to AI, from dream cycle to IVF cycle, through music and ritual, Udofia weaves her own surprising folktale on the cost of creation and the impossible work of becoming.

Role of Projections:

In Creation Stories the multimedia world embodies three interconnected roles: time/memory, space/place, and text/creation.

Time/Memory: The memories experience and the memories imagined. Echo remembrance. Time is is an echo. Echoes of self that are forgotten

Space/Place: The physical and metaphysical locations in habit, in and out of time with the characters. The patterns of place and space. Circle and spiral existence. Moving through the literal world, but also pulled into the macro of the cosmos and the micro of the cellular.

Text/Creation: The intersection between the natural world, the spiritual world, and relationships with past present future

Visual Vocabulary:

Zoetrope: An early pre-film animation device that produces an illusion of motion, consisting of a cylinder with vertical slits, a sequence of pictures, and a rotating base. This rotating, flickering, repetitive processing of time and the world will visualize the cyclical patterns, the loop theGrownWoman has created and is caught in.

Mediation [Glitch, Blur, Focus]: Utilizing the language of glitch aesthetic and datamoshing to rip, shift, and manipulate time. Focus and blur will be folded into this world to also connect to characters’ interior journey.

Natural world, built world, and the Cosmos: The macro echoed in the micro, fractals. Something bigger than you can even imagine that makes you feel small and connected all at the same time. The cells of the body and the patterns in the universe

Language: Literal text. The pages of the play itself. This is the manifestation of creation.