Ellen Welke

This creative activity makes me endlessly happy and allows me to vibrate in many, many strong, iridescent and glittering colors

For me, my synesthesia is an inexhaustible wealth that inspires me, makes me pause in a feeling of being deeply impressed and gives me a lot of joy. For me, all of my artistic work is like breathing and pure enrichment. For many years my artistic expressions included classical ballet, writing poetry, composing music and singing. Filmmaking and dance theater were added later. I have been setting my lyrical works to music for some time now and have begun to tell my songs in music videos or to develop at least one colorful music video for them. This creative activity makes me endlessly happy and allows me to vibrate in many, many strong, iridescent and glittering colors. I feel richly gifted.

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Glance

 

The poem Glance tells a philosophical view of what we can measure with our creation-given possibilities. It also uses metaphorical language to talk about the moment in which the natural limits of our being open up to us or things show themselves that we would never have dreamed of. A look is more than just simply seeing as such. A look can be an illusion and suggest something to us that, like a mirage, is not there. Because a lot of things in life remain hidden from us, I decided to film with black light and fluorescent colors, because these are only visible when we have the right light around us. Without this light they remain hidden from our eyes, just as many things in life remain hidden from us.

 

 

Lyrics  

 

Glance

 

behold what I don’t behold

what is long known to heaven´s essence

oh how I beseech you

give me only one glance

that augurs well

you are detached in the distance

makes me sense what the world create

so infinitely great

hey

How could I be happier than

reveling through of your glances

far into the distance  

give me only one glance

that augurs well

Glancing becomes perceiving

becomes sensing 

in all the being 

divining of all the great things

for the most part hidden

the lightness that has outgrown every glance

becomes profound feeling

painted in beauty colors

frees me from all the narrowness  

the limited few

Oh how I beseech you

How I beseech you

The limited few 

oh how I beseech you give me only one glance

Give me only one glance

Give me only one glance 

 

 

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