the void we avoid

I exist.

It is soft, so soft, so slow. 
And light: 
it seems as though it suspends in the air. 
It moves. 

- Jean-Paul Sartre

not impossible

All of a sudden the wall at the end -
it appears, too clear.

Agnes Dene's Manifesto from 1969
working with a paradox
defining the elusive
visualizing the invisible
communicating the incommunicable
not accepting the limitations society has accepted
seeing in new ways
living for a fraction of a second and penetrating light years
using intellect and instinct to achieve intuition
achieving total self-consciousness and self-awareness
being creatively obsessive
questioning, reasoning, analysing, dissection and re-examining
understanding the finitude of human existence and still striving to create
beauty and provocative reasoning
finding new concepts, recognising new patterns
desiring to know the importance or significance of existence
seeing reality and still being able to dream
persisting in the eternal search

self-correcting maladjustment

QUOTE from Democracy by Joan Didion, 1984

...as the granddaughter of a geologist I learned early to anticipate the absolute mutability of hills and waterfalls and even islands... A hill is a transitional accommodation to stress, and ego may be a similar accommodation. A waterfall is a self-correcting maladjustment of stream to structure, and so, for all I know, is technique.