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Why Devise? Why Now? Creating the Impossible

In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, despair overtook me and I began to find my work empty and ineffectual, incapable of changing the world or even touching just one person. I decided, along with my partner Carlos Uriona, to work on The Adventures of Don Quixote: a novel written in far-away times but with unfortunately similar dilemmas and ominously parallel questions about idealism and fanaticism, cultural wars and social decay, and individual honor and the nature of patriotic rebellion. In conjunction with this research I began to explore a new way of creating, combining physical imagery and emotional intensity with spectacle, flight, comedy, and a circus-like dynamic. I found that I had reached a unilateral place with my previous work, starting to settle for answers instead of asking questions, and I thought I was too young to let my work die in this manner. I wanted to move away from the anger and heaviness that was starting to take over the duality of the Song Trilogy, and begin to find the play and therefore the lightness which must exist in any art whose purpose is not didactic. I must admit that the last thing I could bear to be at the time was unilateral.