Silent Room
Space is provided for sixteen people. Chairs are arranged like soldiers in an army, aligned in perfect formation. No gaze can cross another, no subtle gestures can be exchanged. It is the epitome of efficiency, of controlled space. The massage chairs, each tilted at the same angle, are like small islands surrounded by wooden walls. Each of us immersed in our own world of
thoughts, expectations.
A partition to my left is the right partition of my front man. Iif I follow the straight gaze forward, I see the left wall of the island in front of my neighbor. The echo of isolation itself resonates within the booth.
Interior
The home is best kept free from external influences. For the sake of cleanliness and because one wants to escape the outside. Still, we bring it in through our skin and clothes and through food. Everything else is kept out by doors, windows, and walls. Only we ourselves are the hosts for the dirt we traffic through the borders. Shoes are removed as soon as possible.
Skin is disinfected. Trash is taken out. Toilets are flushed. Clothes are washed at regular intervals.
Appendage
It's strange to see a tree that is walking with a crutch. Perhaps just a precaution, yet unusual, as everyone has tried pitifully to split the roots at some point to dig deeper somewhere. Even with a spade, it's a sweaty job.
I learned that the oak is always firmly rooted, even if everything else around it crumbles.
But here, openly in need of help, because of wind and other factors, as the tree was hastily planted.
After recovery and only if the roots take hold, the crutch can disappear. Then the tree is allowed to spread out like people in old age. Headwinds no longer bother. Only the spade could still cause harm. But the spade is not necessary because the tree is done now and doesn't want to spread out anymore.
Riding the Line
I am riding the line
I am riding the line in a direction
I am an extension of form along the line
In the periphery between two points
The line takes me somewhere
I am a moving shape
I am a moving point
Attached to the line
