Excerpted from a 45 minute improvisation between Eric Theise, manipulating digital maps, and Helena Espvall, performing on cello with electronics. The performance took place on 21 April 2022 at Hangar: Centro de Investigação Artística in the Graça district of Lisboa, Portugal.
In this sequence the scene is anchored at René Levasseur Island, the world's second largest lake island, located 464 miles/746 km northeast of Montréal. The impact of a meteor 214 million years ago is responsible for its geological form but it only became an island as a result of human intervention; a reservoir was created by flood-merging two extant, crescent-shaped lakes in 1970. First Nations peoples and environmentalists are working to protect old-growth boreal forests from logging at this "eye of Québec".