Kirsten

Thinking about what I want my website to feel like. What came up:

An existential labyrinth

Or

Cabinet of curiosities

Work with textured objects, especially from nature…

Eg a leaf

Or an apple, orange…

blindfold ppl and give them an orange slice/apple slice

Get them to figure out what it is

Ask them later how they did this

Get them to write the word

Ask them how one experience relates ro the other

Ask them which of the two they would keep if they could only choose one

Want us to reckon with the layers of labelling, with the action of naming.

Oh, so you are saying the people are not real.

Nope, I am asking you to consider though what is real about them. Is it their roles, their titles, their identities? To what extent are they real?

And if not that what is real about them? What is under the layer of labelling?

The fact that for a second we think robots could replace us shows how little we value who or what we are and where we came from. Our lives, the journey of being here.

They might replace us but because we put them in place of us, that's it. We are creating ourselves away by not realising where creativity actually comes from. Not from us but through

If we equate violence with power we will not want ro be powerful unless we also accept being violent. But if we believe that violence equals power we also won't want to be soft and gentle, because in a world where people rely on violence for power this feels dangerous. So we are stuck in a bind wanting to exercise our power, trying to not be