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?