Really appreciated this article today, particularly the point about post-pandemic different wiring. An the void, I was recently getting in my head on the dancefloor and had what felt like a bit of a revelation that I should just allow this scene infront of me to be like a river that I join and roll with, it's not about me. I've also been reading 'how to do nothing' by Jenny Odell which makes the case for taking a step back but not out of the zone all together, staying in here with your neighbours but looking at things from a different angle, noticing your surroundings and taking them for what they are, not what you want them to be / are worried that they might be. I find this helpful too.
wowww yeah it really is, the fountain is a much better metaphor for what I’m saying because it’s also a circuit isn’t it, everything comes back around eventually in a fountain in different ways, much like the wider water circuitry of the whole planet we live in, and the cultures of humanity, it can feel like we sit under a crushing weight of history and 20th century recorded culture but all of that stuff is washing into our current work and will be washed out and our words will come back around in some form or other
Really appreciated this article today, particularly the point about post-pandemic different wiring. An the void, I was recently getting in my head on the dancefloor and had what felt like a bit of a revelation that I should just allow this scene infront of me to be like a river that I join and roll with, it's not about me. I've also been reading 'how to do nothing' by Jenny Odell which makes the case for taking a step back but not out of the zone all together, staying in here with your neighbours but looking at things from a different angle, noticing your surroundings and taking them for what they are, not what you want them to be / are worried that they might be. I find this helpful too.
i love that. those observations kinda link with my more recent post as well (the fountain).
wowww yeah it really is, the fountain is a much better metaphor for what I’m saying because it’s also a circuit isn’t it, everything comes back around eventually in a fountain in different ways, much like the wider water circuitry of the whole planet we live in, and the cultures of humanity, it can feel like we sit under a crushing weight of history and 20th century recorded culture but all of that stuff is washing into our current work and will be washed out and our words will come back around in some form or other