Why are we making? Why are we mattering?
Emphasis is on the verb quality and not the objects or nouns of making.
We are Gerund Hunters: (gerunds:-a verb's action noun or the name of an action--)
We involve ourselves with mattering in order to express our need for what look like opposites.
We need expressions of affinities, things, tendencies, realities that seem to go together and, from some points of view, seem like opposites.
We need BOTH; just one is an imbalance. Here's a never-ending list of such sweet pairings:
We have the need to move and the need to rest.
We have the need to expend, expand and then restore, repair, heal
to look back and inwards to the past and then to the futur.
to leave, and to return
to merge, and to separate
to lose control, to gain control
to hide, and to be found
to be private, and then public
to create and build, and to dissemble and destroy
to be expelled and to be welcomed back
to experience the permanent, and then the temporary
to enjoy both the familiar and the new
to search for origins and then deny them
There are not direct connections between these pairings. They are related, they are paired by a spiraling, a tacking, affiliation.
The ability to endure these affinities is both innate and practiced. Object-making is a good way to do this. Tyr making things which hold the affinities:
stillness and movement
lightness and darkness
enclosure and vastness
crafted/manipulated and natural/found
Can objects reflect:
the god and the beast?
the profane and the sacred?
danger and enchantment?
sin and innocence?
the ordinary and the fabulous?
the Hunter and the Protector?
the indistinct: the bird/branch, the snake/stick, the fern/insect?
Consider an object to be both:
civil and feral
bought and stolen
given and taken
known and unknown
found and lost
given and gotten
solid and porous
connecting and isolating
smooth and rough
poisonous and nourishing
Have you experienced the
loving Mother?
needy Mother?
devouring Mother?
indifferent Mother?
The Father:
patriarch?
sacred monster?
spiritus rector?
lowason'isaw, the cunt-craving coyote?