Saturday, November 10, 2007

It was a construction site after all

Ask yourself: have you ever seen anything so magnificent?

So magnificent! And, so friendly to your sense of aesthetics! All you can *really* do is stand there; your vast world has collapsed into this narrow inlet of experience - welcome to the here-and-now; it's been waiting for you (to pay attention). Really, what else is there to do besides breathing in the sights and sounds before you?! No wonder that you wish it could be this way forever, tethered to this time and place.. but, still - somehow - feeling light as an amnesiatic feather.

Whip!
Whip; whap!
Crumplecrack!

The massive blue tarp - the source of our audio and visual adventure today - can't help itself; it is caught between the whimsy of the strong easterly winds and the placement of the steel anchors at its edges. The scene is surely an exercise in Drawing Restraint, albeit without an human operator; and, therefore, the flow of howeverwhichway is the order of the day. As a result of that latter fact, the day is all the better.

You see, it's funny when the theoretically-simple strikes you as something much greater than the sum of its parts. In this case, a building-not-yet-complete provided the playground; and a tarp-you've-never-seen-a-tarp-so-large provided a medium for attention-getting (and personal engagement). It was a raging cubist masterpiece come to life!

Still, this anthropomorphic recipe was not yet perfected. Blustery puffs needed to assert themselves, spawned from a sky in all its gray-so-gray glory (and butterfly wings); and they did (bring their A game), in stratospheric amounts. You see, the day was on the cusp of indulging in promiscuous atmospheric play (and I surely was not going to stop it!), and as such, it provided a mystic-from-my-position spice-so-delicious in the form of experiential chaos. Yes, I really do mean *chaos* in the most hell-bent (and pleasing) manner possible; I mean it in the way that seeds submitted to the winds by the promise of a new generation is an intrinsic ideal to aspire to. We know - deep within our DNA - that we must all thrive in an environment of randomness.

In short, the scene before me was really quite hypnotic and charming (again, in a way that connected me to antiquity.. and the ways of the universe at large); it was a construction site after all.

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