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Connections

June 1, 2009 by Nicholas Hedges

Gaston Bachelard, ‘The Poetics of Space’:

“Thus we cover the universe with drawings we have lived.”

Tim Ingold, ‘Lines’:

“The line that goes along has, in Klee’s terms, gone out for a walk.”
“Wayfaring, I believe, is the most fundamental mode by which living beings, both human and non-human, inhabit the earth. By habitation I do not mean making one’s place in a world that has been prepared in advance for the populations that arrive to reside there. The inhabitant is rather one who participates from within in the very process of the world’s continual coming into being and who, in laying a trail of life, contributes to its weave and texture.”

Fernando Pessoa, ‘The Book of Disquiet’:

“To live is to crochet according to a pattern we were given. But while doing it the mind is at liberty, and all enchanted princes can stroll in their parks between one and another plunge of the hooked ivory needle. Needlework of things… Intervals… Nothing…
Besides, what can I expect from myself? My sensations in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling… A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained… A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child… Yes, crochet…”

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Connections, Fernando Pessoa, Gaston Bachelard, Lines, Tim Ingold

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