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war, love, hunger, wealth, scarcity, injury, or pervasive change in one's environment, can bring these sudden metamorphoses to the very forefront of lived reality, as if nothing but sudden and irreversible change were possible : few stimuli leave more work for the mind, more trouble in the depths of the soul, or more of a hunger for the feeble properties of language, in the hopes that something of what once was felt and good, might be saved...
and there, in that want, in that instinct to continue but to figure and to paint or reconstruct, there is the basic urge of humanity at the edge, at the new beginning where everything seems to face the demand for flight, the lack of wings, the hard questions of hoping, moving toward, starting...
© 2007 Joseph Robertson
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WRITING & NAMING: the medicine of acquiring knowledge
Joseph Robertson
Language is that point of contact in the abstract, that plane where the intellectual life within us is enabled to assert itself as part of the overall experience of living. Language is that plane where the individual self is allowed repeated attempts at manifestation. What takes place in the process of writing, in the spilling of ink or the posting of digital characters, the slip toward defining a landscape, however brief, is the sanctification of an individual, and by extension of the human condition as such...
Not every person is a writer, by trade, nor should they be, but there is something about the act of writing that serves the writing individual as if it were a medicine for selfhood, a healing venture into clean waters. Especially so when its intent is to be expressive of secret regions of the mind or to lay out new experimental vessels for such expression. [Keep reading...]
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