thesis
“a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self”
(Kierkegaard)
“We are splinters and mosaics; not, as they used to hold, immaculate, monolithic, consistent wholes.”
Virginia Woolf
“A multiplicity of pores, or blackheads, of little scars or stitches. Breasts, babies, and rods. A multiplicity of bees, soccer players, or Tuareg. A multiplicity of wolves or jackals ... All of these things are irreducible but bring us to a certain status of the formations of the unconscious.”
(Deleuze & Guattari)
FRAGMENT UIT SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR
The balloon pops, the attention
Turns dully away. Clouds
In the puddle stir up into sawtoothed fragments.
I think of the friends
Who came to see me, of what yesterday
Was like. A peculiar slant
Of memory that intrudes on the dreaming model
In the silence of the studio as he considers
Lifting the pencil to the
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Prentis defines embodiment as “the awareness of our body’s sensations, habits, and the beliefs that inform them. Embodiment requires the ability to feel and allow the body’s emotions. This embodied awareness is necessary to realign what we do with what we believe.”
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“In nature, a whole encloses the parts, and yet a larger whole encloses the whole enclosing the parts. By enlarging our field of view, what is thought of as a whole becomes, in fact, nothing more than one part of a larger whole. Yet another whole encloses this whole in a concentric series that continues on to infinity.”
(Masanobu Fukuoka)
Still in the published city but not yet
overtaken by a new form of despair,
I ask
the diagram: is it the foretaste
of paint
it could so easily be? Or an emptiness
so sudden it leave the girders
whanging in the absence of wind,
the sky milk-blue and astringent?
We know
life is so busy, but a larger activity
shrouds it, and this is something
we can never
... See more“Neem een willekeurige geest gedurende een willekeurig moment op een willekeurige dag. De geest ontvangt een enorme lading indrukken: triviaal, fabelachtig, vluchtig of juist scherp als met een etsnaaldje ingesneden. Van alle kanten komen ze, als een aanhoudende regen van ontelbare deeltjes, en terwijl ze neerdalen en samen het leven van maandag of
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