She has seen me show up in tears from spending time alone, thinking too much." I do spend a lot of time alone and I struggle with my own solitude," Davis said. “It affirms that I’m not working in a bubble. “The fact that so many people watched the video and have been in contact with us through personal emails - really nice, candid, vulnerable messages - has meant a lot to me.”ĭavis said it alleviates the issue the poem set out to address. It was an absolute high point in my life.”ĭavis said they still get feedback on the video, which was posted in 2010. I spent two months in my office working on this. It occasionally references the video, but it is mostly a new creation for a new medium. It also felt very permanent to have a book,” she said. It’s such a beautiful poem that I really wanted to make something that was beautiful in a different way. “A book is a totally different incarnation and opportunity. “The book was a nice, pleasant surprise.” New incarnationįor Dorfman, it was a chance to move away from film and toward painting. It’s like a cat I don’t know how many lives it has,” she said. The pair celebrated the artwork at Halifax’s Parenthesis Gallery this weekend.ĭavis, who is originally from P.E.I., said the entire experience was unplanned. Dorfman created 75 paintings to illustrate the 120-page book. Now it’s been turned into an illustrated book of the same name. The fact that so many people watched the video and have been in contact. To their amazement it went viral and today has 6.1 million views and more than 12,000 comments. Poet Tanya Davis and videographer Andrea Dorfman collaborated on a video for Davis’s poem How To Be Alone. A spoken-word video from two Halifax artists that has been viewed more than six million times online has been turned into an illustrated book.
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