transmigration

In a visually luscious tapestry from his “Transmigration Series,” undulating surges of color that slide between burgundy and ruby-red form the ground for a cascade of small crimson bow-tie shapes, tumbling across the field like seeds scattered in the wind.

The solemn and gorgeous 20th is a Glass masterpiece that abstractly mirrors the music to Godfrey Reggio’s 2013 film “Visitors,” a series of small portraits that, with the help of Glass’ score, becomes a kind of cinematic transmigration of their souls.

He had forgotten the names of some of his dogs, she said, and where his bedroom was, but “we had this high-level conversation about the transmigration of souls.”

He is known for his operas, including “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer,” and won a Pulitzer for “On the Transmigration of Souls,” a reflection on the Sept. 11 attacks.

The fisherman happens to be named Hernán, and the possibility that he and the sound engineer are the same person — or alternate versions thereof — would hardly be out of place in Weerasethakul’s cinematic universe, where the transmigration of souls is a given.