portrait through a prism

for orchestra (2021)
Duration: 9’

This piece is inspired by the image of light through a prism. How the original image is destroyed, but in the process is transfigured into a beautiful kaleidoscope of color.

We are much like that light—impermanent, bound to be destroyed. This fact inspires many contradictory emotions in me: powerlessness, fear, awe, reverence, transcendence. portrait through a prism is my meditation on these feelings.