“It is not a question of suppressing the spoken language, but of giving words approximately the importance they have in dreams”
How to create a state of unusual openness, of vulnerability? How to use art as a strategy to create this state?
“When I sound the vessels, I put them in resonance with my liver
or with my sternum. The resonant frequency of the vessel
resembles the resonant frequency of some parts of my body. I
sense how breath makes the molecules of the vessel dance, which
in turn makes my bones and organs dance, and those tiny hairs of
the infinite spiral inside my ear. The ordinary sound of
breathing that we so often forget becomes—thanks to the resonant
concavity of the vessel and its responses in vibrations—an
extraordinary sound.
The extraordinary sound of breathing "shakes us, warns us, hurts
us, changes us..." It makes audible the affirmative forces of
life. Bachelard reminds us one more time, “To get a better
feeling for it, let us try to establish silence in our entire
being–let us listen to nothing but our own breathing–let us
become as aerial as our breath–let us make no noise but our
breathing, taking only shallow breath–let us imagine only those
words that form as we breath. [...] Let us live the word, as we
live it when we swear to love someone ‘with all our soul,’ to
love ‘till our last breath.’ Let us live it by ‘breathing it’.””
Video Documentation
“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one ‘object’ of love.”
