💡 inspo - we are vessels
inspo for essay @ spagmol.substack.com
💡 inspo - we are vessels
we’re all vessels. We fill and we empty, ad infinitum. We pour ourselves into people, places, projects - and they, in turn, pour themselves back into us. We’re porous, after all. The containers we create for ourselves serve a dual purpose: filtering what we allow into our lives and what we allow out.
is your container too big, too small, or just right?
sometimes we tinker with the container when we should be looking at the contents, but sometimes it really is the vessel that needs changing. It needs to be bigger or smaller, or maybe an entirely different shape altogether.
is your container too big, too small, or just right?
When you’re doing yoga, your mat is the whole world. For those 60 minutes, the mat is your container. Even in a room full of people, you’re only paying attention to what happens on that one rectangle of space.
Sometimes I imagine my mat floating in the ocean like a little raft. And if I nudged my toe over the edge, I’d touch cool saltwater instead... See more
Sometimes I imagine my mat floating in the ocean like a little raft. And if I nudged my toe over the edge, I’d touch cool saltwater instead... See more
is your container too big, too small, or just right?
It holds the sum total of our thoughts, feelings, dreams, and experiences in the world. Let’s call this the vessel.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
LIFE IS A CONTAINER
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
Each of us is a container, with a bounding surface and an in-out orientation.
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
I think of experience design as the creation of containers. Spacial, emotional, temporal, behavioral. And for containers to exist, they must have edges. Thresholds between what is, and what is not, the experience.
Spacial: Think the doors between rooms. The fences that enclose these gardens where we play. The changes in environment that signal we... See more
Spacial: Think the doors between rooms. The fences that enclose these gardens where we play. The changes in environment that signal we... See more
This is the importance of a container: it acts as portal to your World. If your excitable interests are like the elemental charged background atoms of your unformed World, then the container is the medium of their first expression.