“Words, images, sounds are specks of matter that I must be able to taste on my tongue. I believe in the power of blood, of flow, in being thoroughly immersed in the ever changing tide.
Wet earth slips through my fingers and a seedling appears. I knead dough, leave it in the sun, some time later I return and it has doubled in size. Something near me is very alive, and I wonder in what way we are going to interact.
Here, humans are never the sole protagonist. Always surrounded by other life. What shaped us, I give back in form. Like a primal cry that sweeps into the present. Here, I find unexplored territory, where I no longer need to distinguish man from tree from stone. This interconnected land helps me find answers to all that confuses me today. Which land has room for me? How to live here, with all that I know? How do we awaken from our slumber, we ghostly humans, exorcising our hubris upon the world? Who or what keeps me breathing, not merely the mechanics, but the internal will?
In this land I call into existence, the desire for restoration to connection and intimacy always creeps in. An endless battle against disintegration.
The tentacles of my body sometimes seem to speak for me. They urge me to feel the same intensity of the sublime landscape where cloud and wind become one and suddenly out of nowhere, an impossibly bright light penetrates the dark sky. That light, that force, I must feel within and through me, flowing out from me. Seeking for expansion of the mind towards the astral; but always through the murkiness of wounds and carcasses, of compost, of blood.
Aware of bearing a soul; listening, offering generous possibilities (space, time, freedom, silence) for that soul to be, to become.
A temporal manifestation of vitality. Guided by inner voices, possessed by the man that I was three hundred years ago. Carrying his spirit, it wraps itself in linen cloths and transforms into the woman I am today, ready to come forward, to initiate.
This life demands of me to unfold certain traces for the next that will breathe in me.”
