Mariana Paku
@marianapaku
Mariana Paku
Paracosm
A paracosm is an imaginary world. A world we create beside the real world. Thought generally to originate in childhood.
Sand and Making Art
Memory and imagination are closely linked. One reconstructs based on the gist; the other builds on whatever desire or dread is fuelling your image of the future. Both are essentially creative activities; where they differ is not in form but in their source of inspiration.
Vincent Deary • How We Are
“The process of making art,” writes Rebecca Solnit, “is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity.”[2]
Cameron Russell • How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir
Recipe for excavation sand:
4 cups of sand
2 cups of cornstarch
1 cup of water
Adjust the water until you get a crumbly yet packable texture.
Confabulation (Skeptic’s Dictionary): see also Power of Fiction. NB. “children and many adults confabulate when encouraged to talk about things of which they have no knowledge.”
Sean • Knowing Things Is Hard
Project name?
Rituals are how we remember to practice something with our bodies that is not yet rooted in our minds.
The reality of the drawing differs from the reality of the matter: to make is to find my own limitations and play with them.
Leveling up to art as play, as a form of ultimate exploration and discovery. The goal is not to prove myself but to explore, to listen and to receive. Art as a devotional practice.