Based on Sappho’s Fragment 31, the score for god’s double was originally written in 2018 and performed for the first time in August 2025 at 49 Monroe St in Manhattan. Performed as a trio to represent the love triangle from the original fragment, the performance itself exists in a continual loop of translation between the three performers—echoing the state of Sappho’s own surviving works. Their bodies move through the charged space of desire, where perception stutters, where thought, gesture, and speech break apart and begin again. The work unfolds in starts and stops, as if it’s still being deciphered—no completion, only encounter.

 The beginning of the score is as follows:

To be performed as a trio.

One person is the one follows the “instructions” of the piece while the other two (the duo) must stare into one another’s eyes without blinking/attempting not to blink for as long as possible, without touching. The word “love” (in any context, such as “your love”) signals the duo to encroach upon the space of the person performing the instructions while still looking into one another’s eyes. They will obstruct how the individual performing the instructions would like to move, but never physically touch them. This encroachment ends when something moves through/within the person following the instructions.

The duo staring into one another’s eyes only receives the poem, but the above are their only instructions. The person following the instructions receives the poem with its instructions.