Invisible Work by Justice Phillips

Описание: I composed this piece in the Fall of 2025. It's written for and performed by ‪‪@vampvocals‬, an all women's vocal quintet based in Austin, Texas. They were joined by ‪@LillianBoessen‬, an amazing soprano based in Sherman, Texas. The text is from ‪‪@jenniferbloom7129‬ poem also titled "Invisible Work." The poem is from her new book "circularity (poems in the spirit of tarot)."

Audio by Andy Stoltz
Video by Todd Waldron
Lighting by Liam Dolan - Henderson

Invisible Work by Jennifer Bloom Greenberg:


If you’re going to do something,
why not do it boldly?
If you’re going to say something,
why not say it with your whole heart?

Invisible work:
The prayer.
The practice.
The offering of shelter.
The sitting together in silence.

This is my tale.
What I’ve lived.
What I’ve learned.
I want to share,
authentically expressing
the whole of what I’ve experienced.

It doesn’t have to be for the masses.
It’s not to convince anyone of anything.
Not for accolades or praise,
but to open as a conduit
of ideas, truth, love.

A punctuation mark in this story of us.

An invitation,
a place for you to settle in.
a space for pain to land,
for fear to let go its hold.

Could you allow joy
to seep into the space between
expectation and unfoldment,
for love to be what connects
through grief, through release
of disappointments,
not-enoughness,
the pressure of time
and imagined destinations?

Listen.
You might hear something
that resonates with what you know.

We are a constellation
of relational intelligences.
Nature nurturing
the technology of being,
the technology of becoming,
the face of the divine shining
through the face of you and you
and you and me.

The heart of the divine beating
through voice, hands,
pen, presence.

Until we are brave enough to meet
another where they are and say,
I hear you.
I accept your story.
Let’s be in this together.