introductions are in order
The name for this domain was originally inspired by a favourite poem of Phyllis Webb’s “And In Our Time:”
A world flew in my mouth with our first kiss
and its wings were dipped in all the flavours of grief.
Oh my darling, tell me, what can love mean in such a world,
and what can we or any lovers hold in this immensity
of hate and broken things?
Now it is down, down, that’s where your kiss travels me
and, as a world tumbling shocks the theories of spheres,
so this love is like falling glass shaking with stars
the air which tomorrow, or even today, will be
a slow, terrible movement of scars.
What can love mean, in such a world? I think the poem speaks for itself, and I return to it again and again, it is one of those poems that has stayed with me.
The creation of this blog comes at just the right time in my life. I feel finally ready to write about the things I am learning and experiencing in a more polished form of self-publishing. That said, I have some ideas for how I can use this space:
- to share recipe and book reviews
- to research and write about my academic interests (which are interdisciplinary; converging on technology, contemporary art history and issues in animal representation)
- to tell parts of my own story
- to react to experiences and online discoveries, to art that moves me
- to research possible answers to questions
This blog is about process, work in progress, those moments between idea and polished final product which are always in motion. There is something to say about the state of the unfinished, one I know well. I have learned that there is always more to learn - it has served me best to be yielding, with discerning eyes wide open to possibilities of better understanding. This way, I have come far. But, happily, have so much further to go.
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