So beautiful- and mind- blowing. I just listened to your video. It is so powerful - this art by Torres and your poetry of it ( your speaking it in deep words) that it passes from him, ( we could say through him too) through you to me- and transforms me. It does its work on me. It changes me - to attend to the moment of life, the moment of confinement and reaching and moving thru and past it, the shedding of our mortal coil, the shedding of our self. Oh my and the flight and release that comes from that. Oh my. The best words I can say for something that cannot be spoken. Thank you for sharing.
Love this. I will not be able to un/frame/feel/think/ the notion that a work of art - any and all - can be a koan, just like a tree and a shit stick can. And what that promises - if I truly treat artworks as shitsticks to consider, and trees to consider, I can stop asking them to stand still (answering, telling, flirting, spitting, waving, winking, wheedling, etc) and instead view them as shimmering shares & flickering questions for all of us.
So beautiful- and mind- blowing. I just listened to your video. It is so powerful - this art by Torres and your poetry of it ( your speaking it in deep words) that it passes from him, ( we could say through him too) through you to me- and transforms me. It does its work on me. It changes me - to attend to the moment of life, the moment of confinement and reaching and moving thru and past it, the shedding of our mortal coil, the shedding of our self. Oh my and the flight and release that comes from that. Oh my. The best words I can say for something that cannot be spoken. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much, Emily!
Love this. I will not be able to un/frame/feel/think/ the notion that a work of art - any and all - can be a koan, just like a tree and a shit stick can. And what that promises - if I truly treat artworks as shitsticks to consider, and trees to consider, I can stop asking them to stand still (answering, telling, flirting, spitting, waving, winking, wheedling, etc) and instead view them as shimmering shares & flickering questions for all of us.
Or something,
Or/and not.
I love this so much! Shimmering shares and flickering questions!