Let
me travel, scavenge, dream, build.
ÒChildrenÓ
wrote Walter Benjamin, Òare less intrigued by the performed world that adults
have created than by its waste products. They are drawn to apparently
valueless, intentionless things: In using these things they do not so much
imitate the works of adults as bring together, in the artifacts produced in
play, materials of widely different kinds in a new intuitive relationship.Ó
While
the mind is floating, visions will appear.
Making many
elements of different natures come together reveals imagination and forces new
ideas. By only using materials that are found instead of those we know and buy,
we step out of the realm of commerce and into a more surreal and subconscious
way of thinking. Like in a dream, where completely different ideas or images
that would never be put together in our reality, are now working perfectly
together in a very intriguing way.
Getting
easierÉ or the clouds in my head are riding bicycles.
Momentum
can be stagnant and oppressive. To
reveal the strangely dark and brightly beautiful, reasonÕs bark must be left
alone to exhaust itself, while the subconscious begins to crawl back on shore. In doing so, this arbitrary reality can
be adapted, helping us to find what can be so good.
Follow
the path and the food and shelter will come.