enfolded

Its serene opening was “Journey in Satchidananda,” a modal meditation with the flute and saxophones of Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp enfolded in her cascading harp arpeggios.

Just hearing Nurse Beverly’s voice made him feel like he’d been enfolded into her pillowy white arms and cuddled onto her soft lap.

There were laws passed in some of the first colonies that unmarried people had to somehow be enfolded into a family unit led by a land-owning man, because single people might be the cause of disorder.

Harplike plinks and clicking percussion rise around her voice, enfolded in instrumental and vocal harmonies as she sings that “portals open as you slowly drift through/surrounded by our love.”

The point here is that Counterpublic, for all its radical aspirations, remains enfolded in the kind of public-private-philanthropic architecture typical for biennials and public art in the United States.