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She leaves him on the border at Laredo and YOUR CLOUD finds her travelling
alone up the Mississippi to Memphis. From there she travels on to a place
where thousands of Cherokees died. "She's thinking about the idea of
segregation and people separating themselves from the land. Everybody has a
body map, and she's trying to find hers." She also visits the battlefields
of the Civil War, before she arrives in Philadelphia where she sees the
Liberty Bell - and observes that it is cracked.
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
"Here she goes uhh trundling across the country making her way somewhere, not quite sure where it's leading her. But she goes to the Mississippi and not far out of Memphis is where umm there's a national monument. There's this acknowledgment of where alot of the Cherokees died, didn't make it to Indian territory on the Trail of Tears, where alot of them perished. And in Your Cloud, so much of it is about segregation - even of a raindrop. The separation that the tearing apart of a tear, extracting that. Cutting that apart - the division. It's about separating that which you cannot separate. Not really. There will be strands, there will be molecules. And taking those people from their land. The land of the ancestors. Taking a child away from it's mother. That doesn't mean that there aren't pieces of that child still in that mother just because it's been, you know, delivered from her womb. Because a couple separates doesn't mean that there aren't pieces of him still in her."
-- Scarlet Stories CD
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