“The sense of interdependence does not arise from knowledge. It is, above all, an act of ‘allowing oneself to be touched,’ and involves a form of gratitude that is neither subjective nor objective, because its truth lies in its generativity.” Isabelle Stengers
This feeling needs to be cultivated because it is vulnerable. It is easy to dismiss the realization that we are who we are thanks to other people and the more-than-human world. However small, interstitial, and fragile interdependence sometimes may seem.
I let it exist as part of a practical imagination: exploring my relationship with the weather: how it enters, transforms, and settles within me. The body, both pliable and unyielding, resists and adapts.
I draw the network of sensations activated by the weather in order to remain in intimacy with them. Bit by bit, I begin to experience how my body is in constant flux and relation to its surroundings.
The way I draw is inspired by looking at the paintings of Yolngu of North-East Arnhem Land. The Yolngu paintings are maps, but only when understood in their original, pre-cartographic sense: as instruments that reveal the inner reality of the world, not as representations of its surface. Yolngu inhabit their paintings: walking in thought through the journeys of their ancestors, bringing them into the present, giving direction and meaning to their lives. Their geometries form spaces, open for own interpretation, where mind and world can merge into an web of relations.
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