alice discovers paradox
Sometimes the mountain
is hidden from me in veils
of cloud, sometimes
I am hidden from the mountain
in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue,
when I forget or refuse to go
down to the shore or a few yards
up the road, on a clear day,
to reconfirm
that witnessing presence.
Denise Levertov
the aesthetics of changeling moods & graces show us our sub-conscious pitfalls….whether we want to note them or not…we have to fall down the rabbit hole again & again…
The superimposition of the dream state on the conscious-awake state is something that is very important to all artists. It’s not a rational world; it’s a rationalizing world. It’s one in which we’ve constructed states of reality that are quite complex…..James Turrell
do we really know how ‘rubber-stamped’ we really are? how labeled our intellect is for us? this is why our imaginations are crucial…they are what truly define us…call us wild…
where does the rabbit hole go?
Free thinker! Do you think you are the only thinker
on this earth in which life blazes inside all things?
Your liberty does what it wishes with the powers it controls, but when you gather to plan, the universe is not there.
Look carefully in an animal at a spirit alive:
every flower is a soul opening out into nature;
a mystery touching love is asleep inside metal.
‘Everything is intelligent.’ (Pythagoras)
And everything moves you.
In that blind wall, look out for the eyes that pierce you:
the substance of creation cannot be separated from a word.
Do not force it to labor in some low phrase!
Often a Holy Thing is living hidden in a dark creature;
and like an eye which is born covered by its lids,
a pure spirit is growing strong under the bark of stones….
Gerard de Nerval
