Preview, Art, and a Friend
By asomeshwarApril 4, 2015 - 20:02
We made art at my site. The art is a preview of more art. That art will be ready for Monday. That art is my paper on "genres."
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We made art at my site. The art is a preview of more art. That art will be ready for Monday. That art is my paper on "genres."
I was thinking of “restoration” at my site today, mulling over how we challenged, complexified, validated, and disclaimed the word in our conversation on Thursday. It feels like the first true day of spring today. This got me thinking...spring can be considered a time of restoration. The earth is “returning” to its former, vibrant and colorful state. Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, the sun finally peaks its way out from behind the clouds. Spring is often treated as a time of rejuvenation and rebirth. But this got me thinking...does springtime “rebirth” always bring about the restoration of flowers and happy thoughts? T.S. Elliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month”. Maybe darker and heavier thoughts also experience a rebirth in spring.
Groups. Crowds. Bodies. #connection
Footsteps to there and then back again. #restlessness
Burning of tobacco and paper. Those eyes staring in one direction but blowing air in the other. #stressed
Clothed vs. unclothed. Chapped vs. not chapped. Sitting vs. Standing. #variety with a dash of #confusion
Wrapped yarn in the tree. Beer can in the branches. Tree next to concrete. Concrete in earth. #displacement
Droopy eyes but lively movements. #how
Bedtime vs partytime. #choices
Words I thought of on the rugby pitch while I watched Wednesday practice:
Team
Cold
Dirt
Mud
Head
Hurt
Running
Kicking
Breezy
Cloudy
Feeling
Lazy
Splash
Rustle
Pet
Tackle
What else?
I forget…
Last week, I sounded retreat.
I was SO DONE with my cozy retreat:
Too closed-in, too tight, too neat.
I sought out another seat.
One with a vista.
.
And movement.
So the pace is slow...
Eduroam wouldn't let me post this all night and it was so annoying, but the internet is back! Yay!
This is my first attempt at changing how I write site sits, these are the songs that I wanted to listen to after sitting at my site sit for a while, put on a photo I took there earlier this semester
I've linked them at the bottom: enjoy!
When talking about being more wild with our writing, we talked a lot about how using space and silence can be powerful and can allow for more freedom in interpretation. Well I've decided I will take that to the extreme with this post, and instead of filling it with words that attempt to map out my site sit experience from today, (which is already something beyond words), I will just leave this space here for individual interpretation. So my attempt at wild writing here is space and silence. Have I pushed it too far yet??
Site Sit Reflection:
The end.
This is an excerpt from a letter I read at my site sit this morning...