Number 14
With a creation like Jackson Pollock’s Number 14, do you shout, whisper, or question “Done”?
:- Doug.
Archive for September, 2021
Footprints in the Windsm # 2070–Made by conversation
Footprints in the Windsm # 2070
The central mystery is that the world is made by conversation.
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Here there be berries!
This idea of gesture and seeing gesture more broadly is opening up more of the path through the brambles. Here there be berries!
:- Doug.
Between frog calls
Look for the negative spaces in nature. The gaps between the leaves, the pauses between bird songs, the deep frog calls fading.
:- Doug.
Echo almost caught
We’re going to look for ways to engage humanity—and along the way we may find that the way is the humanity. An echo almost caught: the way is the life.
:- Doug.
Turn to the wild bramble
The reason I closed the door on my practice was to turn to the wild bramble that is this life.
:- Doug.
Walking course
This course walks by experiments. It will not stay within the banks of any lesson plan. Indeed lessons pop in our face. Lessons astound!
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2069–The people perish
Footprints in the Windsm # 2069
Without conversation the people perish.
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Breaking open the loaf
This is why I am today keying in on this word convivium. It is an uncommon word. It has windows, doors, and skylights. Lots of doors. We need to go out and meet our convivium, our ancestors older and newer. It is a home word. It does not encapsulate the whole, but rather opens up the loaf, starts the conversation.
:- Doug.
Traps to our thinking
The encapsulated word traps our thinking. I’d rather a home word—a place with windows, doors, and skylights to go out and meet the world and come back to cherish them all.
:- Doug.
Black raspberry books
I’m weaving together two books to make a library, a theater, a convivium. A black raspberry bush.
:- Doug.
Gesture to the path
(gesture to the path)
The way is
(two hands moving up along side
your ankles to your torso)
the human
:- Doug.
After physicality
Don’t stop with finding the Old English physicality, enact! Gesture! Walk! With another!
:- Doug.
Walk and talk
To walk and talk
That’s what it means
To be human
To gesture
Broadly and minutely
To befriend
The other to tend
:- Doug.
Point to behind
Point to behind. If someone comes after you in line, where do they stand? In chronological order those who come after you come later in time. Compared to you, we say those born 50 years from now are where? In the future is after you, behind you, yes?
:- Doug.
