The Poetry Video Art by David Dephy’s Poetry Orchestra
Dusty Edge of Insanity is an eight-minute-and-twenty-one-second original score video poetry work that confronts the fractures of our contemporary world through a fusion of poetry, music, and vivid visual language. The piece explores global political, humanitarian, and spiritual conflicts, moving fluidly between tension and reflection. Its colorful, dynamic imagery amplifies the emotional weight of the poetry, drawing viewers into an immersive and urgent experience. At once intense and lyrical, the work captures the instability of our times while refusing despair. Beneath its raw power lies a current of hope, suggesting the possibility of connection, awareness, and transformation. Dusty Edge of Insanity ultimately delivers a strong, resonant message that lingers well beyond the final frame.
Director Statement
In the digital cosmic age, art and poetry, or the art of poetry, the poetry video art, will transcend borders, blending human intuition to express universal consciousness. Artists/poets will become more visionary than ever — a spaceship and all the mystical bridge-builders between technology and the spirit, word and eternity. I am one of these visionaries, a poet for the future worlds who has already found the connection, and we have found the language to express the message for the future worlds. My commitment is to continue creating works that awaken this shared consciousness, forging timeless bridges between the human spirit and infinity, poetry that comforts and offers hope for decency, a brilliant prophecy that lives in all of us.
David Dephy is an award-winning American poet, novelist, and multimedia artist. The founder of Poetry Orchestra. Named as the Poet-in-Residence for Brownstone Poets for 2024-2026. His poem, “A Sense of Purpose,” was sent to the Moon in 2025 by NASA, Lunar Codex, and Brick Street Poetry. Dephy was exiled from his native country of Georgia and was granted indefinite political asylum in the U.S. His wife and son joined him in the U.S. in 2023, after six years of exile. He lives and works in New York City.
