up and away the sky booms. we crawl from the roof like old baboons. limpid* souls. low and steady. in front of a storm to set a few. i find her. the rain is warm and we run through. we close all the doors. open certain windows, the rain blows round, full blooms. for every… Continue reading LIMPID | definition in the _ dictionary › limpid6 days ago — limpid meaning: 1. clear and transparent: 2. clearly expressed and easily understood: 3. clear and transparent: . Learn more.
i am grateful to conduct interview dialogues with people of different place, experience and belief on ideas of self/not; time; wondrous things; and unanswerable questions. in 2014 i began to collect audio interviews on my travels and where i live. since then they have been used as accompaniment in the classes and workshops i facilitate;… Continue reading HUMAN INTERVIEWS
catch me in that dream again i remember quite clearly: i wake in a small tall house with three levels curtains billow through sun beams and open panes there is a dog on each floor, sleep / waking i am there with love who is away just now and will be home again a sense… Continue reading the dream again
look i can hold you a distance so near you can't hear my breath seeping into your ear. it's already there, missed it come and now gone and all that is felt is the residue on the insides of you thinking me into being. drive homeward to sound all the truth in thought's seeing. photo by me
ø More conversation has taken us on since then. And right now I think of time as the substance by which action can be perceived. Because Time feels to me like: the carved vessel / the act of its sculpting as well as the volume of space / the vibration therein. Twin Body - Different people form the line of my… Continue reading Bebe and a practice with Meg Stuart scores
coda: 27Jan2017 last week I enter large, a door frame. the door is open, light is on. "what are you doing?" (I mean what is that, specifically) "working, cole.." a curt flush from behind the front of alaptoponadesk. annoyed but playful. i keep my large at the door and insert: "will you be my creative… Continue reading you sit on it
Listening to people. Their lives. Walking home on Sunday I stop to talk to a man and his dog. We speak deeply, quickly. He brings up time and humanity which has me telling him about the interviews I’ve been collecting over the last few years. How the process is “unmooring me” as another friend has put… Continue reading walkeye and the time-being
What I'm looking at is our place of perception. In that place you are moving. The place is also moving.
Listening to the interviews I’ve collected. Transcribing, re-living, processing with new ideas. Imagine me as a tree growing lessons by the sun. Ra It’s like I’m tripping. Dripping. Over the last two years I've recorded dozens of people, different ages in different parts of the world discussing their ideas of “self/not-self”, “time”, and now a third question… Continue reading “touch a nerve?” (anonymous)
i do not want a heart that wanders, forgets. do not give me a heart for love elsewhere. i want a heart whose love is rooted long sight. give me a heart that grows thick tall wide from depth remembered; hunger for sight, thirst for light, able to reach out. a heart that can be any… Continue reading deep
Perception: it is what is. I spoke to someone last night, or rather they told me things. I felt off. Who the fuck do I think I am? To name someone’s truth. If we are asked for help, are we charged to answer? And answer with the help they seek? What of the help they need? Who the fuck… Continue reading how much? how far?
André Lepecki on collaborating with Meg Stuart: “approach to metaphor as something that must be literalism by physical action.” (67) “the fine liminality between living and haunting” (67) “the process was guided by thinking practically on how lineage is a body - but also how language makes bodies, and finally how bodies both make and… Continue reading something about a word is not more.
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