Kasturi Kiri
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Kasturi Kiri
There’s a game I sometimes play at the museum: ‘what kind of painting am I today?’ Never, despite my best attempts, am I an angelic Botticelli. When hungover and weary, perhaps a Toulouse-Lautrec. When swaddled in loneliness, absolutely an Edward Hopper.
Michael Rance • 'You Can Live the Wrong Life'
wrong lives and mental healing
Roleplaying is a way to understand how you might truly feel
Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
Making connections between ideas (or curation) is a valid and robust form of creativity
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills that demand time, patience, and a willingness to look beyond the surface.
To collect well is to resist algorithmic influence. A true collection reflects deeply personal values and a genuine desire to know... See more
To collect well is to resist algorithmic influence. A true collection reflects deeply personal values and a genuine desire to know... See more
Patricia Hurducaș • Archives: Anchors For Attention
Archiving / collecting requires deep and intentional awareness and attention
Gathering is the tender and thoughtful collection of goods for your kin, and a moment for reunion, for celebration, and for introspection around those goods.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
In 1817, the poet John Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.” Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching ... See more
Instead of 'telescoping', how about 'kaleidoscope-ing' here, i.e. "To move in shifting (and often attractive or colourful) patterns." - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaleidoscope
Adding shapes, spotting connections, meanings shifting as patterning and re-patterning continues through shapes being organised and connected in different ways. Like that ... See more
Adding shapes, spotting connections, meanings shifting as patterning and re-patterning continues through shapes being organised and connected in different ways. Like that ... See more
Kaleidoscoping vs telescoping | Are.na
Researchers & archivists build up a network of every-shifting ideas and meanings.
This process of exploring shifting patterns feels like looking through a kaleidoscope.
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
A memory is not a singular event, but a trail of associations.
[Persistent self-love]...is not the feeling that I am awesome all the time. Instead, it is the total banishment of self-loathing. It is the deactivation of the part of my mind that used to attack itself...It’s the sense that, while I might fuck up, my basic worth is beyond question—I have no essential damage, I am not polluted, I am fine.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Self love means you don’t question your basic worth.