A Fieldguide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
A very intriguing read. A curated collection of American history, art theory, philosophy and personal memoir.
-THE BLUE OF DISTANCE-
Ideas and quotes from the book.
"The other kind of lost, not of dis-location but if total immersion, where everything else falls away."
"Temporary land"
"There are fossils of seashells in the high Himalaya's. What was and is are different things."
"...the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit..."
"Lose the world, gain your soul."
"It's touching the edge of the unknown that sharpens the senses."
"To be lost it to be fully present, one does not get lost, one loses themselves."
"Emptiness is the track on which the centred person moves."
Trace - shul - Tibetan
A mark that remains after that which has made it has passed by - a footprint for example or the ground where a house once stood.
A path is a shul.
"The ghosts of garments"
"Maps are never precise, no matter how accurate. Yet the less detail, the more accurate" for geology and paths and roads are constantly changing, to be more vague is to be more open to change and still be accurate.
"representation is always partial."
Embracing emptiness, not to be confused with 'lack'.
A photograph can stand in for a work of art too ephemeral/personal/remote to be exhibited.
A very intriguing read. A curated collection of American history, art theory, philosophy and personal memoir.
-THE BLUE OF DISTANCE-
Ideas and quotes from the book.
"The other kind of lost, not of dis-location but if total immersion, where everything else falls away."
"Temporary land"
"There are fossils of seashells in the high Himalaya's. What was and is are different things."
"...the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit..."
"Lose the world, gain your soul."
"It's touching the edge of the unknown that sharpens the senses."
"To be lost it to be fully present, one does not get lost, one loses themselves."
"Emptiness is the track on which the centred person moves."
Trace - shul - Tibetan
A mark that remains after that which has made it has passed by - a footprint for example or the ground where a house once stood.
A path is a shul.
"The ghosts of garments"
"Maps are never precise, no matter how accurate. Yet the less detail, the more accurate" for geology and paths and roads are constantly changing, to be more vague is to be more open to change and still be accurate.
"representation is always partial."
Embracing emptiness, not to be confused with 'lack'.
A photograph can stand in for a work of art too ephemeral/personal/remote to be exhibited.