The single installment of Palindromeda’s show, Different Side of the Same Leaf, explores changes which are best reflected in organic metaphors and sonic comfort. We look to leaves and seasons to understand that change and decay and regrowth are inevitable and beautiful; we turn over new leaves, and sometimes examine the other side of the same leaf. [“to turn over a new leaf” comes from the 16th century expression referring to leaves as pages of a book rather than leaves of a tree. the homonym is not lost on me.]

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

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These sounds specifically reflect on the metaphor of ‘pollination’, a process carried out by many insects and bees that is crucial to the health of an ecosystem. Pollination is about carrying good from one place to the next.