Practice: shifting weight. Completely from one foot to the other. Without lifting either foot off the ground line up whole side light up the electricity all the way up into the face ears fingers skull... and then ... shift.
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I like how this feels like an unearthed work song....like if we could go back on the plantation and lift the veil from the lyrics in those old coded songs of protest....this would be the straight forward version. Blunt. I wield a Tool in hand.
It has a handle. It has a blade. It has a length. It has a weight. As do I. To apply my tool with impact, impact produces desired result I must commit be responsible for awareness primary, physical relationship to tool movement. But no, Or rather, the primary relationship is to self: bodymindsoul then self to tool then tool to impact. trinity. "My body is the extension of my body". I read that today A review of a book by Barbara Browning, "THE GIFT or techniques of the body". This project is an expedition into the body and through its extensions to its capacity To beyond my self I time travel these movements gleaned dances From when they procreated Selves Into us. To speak to my ancestor. The epic languages of actualities If only to affirm my suspicions. And carry on. Therefore Uninhibited And Armed. |
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