A R D A N

this is the story you inherit

“We must return to relation as the splendour that at once linked us together, relays and relates. In relation, what links together is the result of the relationship between the world’s differences once they come into contact with one another. Roots pass through rhizomes, ideas, identities and intuitions that relay, thus, constituting the fabric of the living and the fabric of cultures, through which our shared “common-places” are revealed. Lastly, poetics relate. It doesn’t tell, it speaks. Relation intensifies when it speaks, when it speaks itself. What it relates is not a story, but a state of the world; a world state. I have imagined that beauty is situated at the juncture of so many upheavals, and that what we call “aesthetics” is above all the lesson of the non-normative. Beauty indicates the movement of differences and their encounter with us.”

The landscape of your word is the world’s landscape.

“We know ourselves as part and as crowd, in an unknown that does not terrify. We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.”

Thinking through wholes w/ glissant

“We must not tell ourselves that the indeterminate, the uncertain, the un-obvious, is a weakness. We must say to ourselves that it opens our minds to unexpected forms of complexities. The Tremulous thought is not a thought out of fear, scared thinking, it is a thought that is opposed to systematic thinking. All the poets have said it. The gasping, the breathing, the pulse, the misfortunes, the fears, the insane hopes, and the sterile obsessions. All of these need to be relearned and remixed. The poetics of this endeavor seems more important than the categories of quick thinking, that lead to definitive and fixed conclusions. We understand the world better if we tremble with it.”

“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.”

“You’re learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving.“ Matt Kahn”

“Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.”