Azure Bourdeau (Zu)
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Azure Bourdeau (Zu)
Do you already know that your existence--who and how you are--is in and of itself a contribution to the people and place around you? Not after or because you do some particular thing, but simply the miracle of your life. And that the people around you, and the place(s), have contributions as well? Do you understand that your quality of life and
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sometimes your body is asking for wood, for water, for the kindness of round things——this is a nervous system remembering what safe feels like.
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At the heart of Wall-E and Brave New World lies a shared dystopia: the death of human agency.
People in these worlds don’t struggle. They don’t choose. They’re handed pleasure on a silver platter—food, sex, entertainment—served exactly how and when they want it.
No effort. No friction. Just... See more
instagram.comWorld building not as bringing in new possibility, but as working with the fractured pieces that have been waiting for me. I want to let things settle, digest, and integrate
Cody Cook-Parrott • Tuning in to Objects, Essays, and Ideas
creativity, collecting, consumtions
Cody Cook-Parrott, October 20, 2025, Substack
It is no mystery to me that I love to accumulate. A bookstore feels like a place where I find my kin and my ancestors, wanting to take them home with me. I love fashion and dressing a certain way so I love to thrift and shop at vintage stores and find treasures. I love to read and listen to podcasts to bring in new knowledge. I am a hungry ghost,... See more
Tuning in to Objects, Essays, and Ideas
creativity, collecting, consumtions
Cody Cook-Parrott, October 20, 2025, Substack
“Primary among these disciplines is the practice of deep listening, which acknowledges the wisdom in others and in dreaming Earth. When we listen deeply, we begin to uncover what wants to be brought into awareness. We become receptive and permeable to sources of wisdom that lie beyond the purely human. Listening is the art of reverence.”
Trauma As Initiation
Francis Wellner
The work of being an artist is to practice devotion in all directions — to let the projects pollinate each other without forcing a single flower to carry all the meaning.
EMBODIMENT ꩜
For Gil “the Grid” Gomes Leal, the body is more than a vessel. It is memory, a compass, and a teacher.
Movement is meditation, dance a dialogue, each step an invitation to integrate our discarded elements into wholeness.
His work reminds us that... See more
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