A few people asked me “but why”? And I could flippantly reply “because art”, but more accurate would be to say “I don’t know yet”.

Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua writes, “art typical of Western European cultures, attempts to manage the energies of its own internal system such as conflicts, harmonies, resolutions, and balances…It is dedicated to the validation of itself. Its task is to move humans by means of achieving mastery in content, technique, feeling. Western art is always whole and always ‘in power.’ It is individual (not communal).”

what does it mean to live in a flourishing way as a contemporary human?

Truth is subjective and valid onlt to YOU-- hard to capitalise on that

echo as a spiral, form of retelling history
+ a metaphor of reciprocity’
Édouard Glissant, Poetics of relation via Luis Henderson

Chaos has the potency to make creation possible.

rhythm as a relational language, which today, perhaps more than ever, might inspire a sense of co-belonging.

auditory unconscious’, ‘auditory memory’ and ‘auditory image’.