Sunday, January 15, 2012

mapping place, thought

and i am not ready to publish
(blogger is wonky again)
but maybe
i am:
~
home
yakut farmstead, mammoth tusk, wood, 19th c, russian museum of ethnography
a grid
a map
a way to describe
to pay attention
to the 
experienced 
a place
a home
a wilderness
vast, unknowable 
a way to be
in the landscape
to organize
somehow
that which we are puzzled by
land maps
booked in a map of pages and thoughts
tell someone  
work maps
sewn together in 
patchwork of 
plant land soil mineral
materiality
place: here there where

12 comments:

  1. where?

    in you
    in the poetry
    of your heart eye hand mind.

    so beautiful.

    a thanks

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  2. jude also has an interesting post on her blog today - about home, dreaming and no internet...must be the cold bringing us in to the nurturing warmth of containment - home, dreams, touch of the materiality of objects that feel comforting in the hand...reconstruction of a past replaced by technology. i started reading something this morning that went something like - technology is the new media...maybe so but i still want to hold and feel my place. off to dream and think a bit too. xox

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  3. m & h, i am so homebound this weekend, by weather, by nature, by choice. it's got me thinking, and mapping how i think.

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  4. Mapping... I like that. And lines of light through old barn board - a different kind of map - time - mapping decay.

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  5. beautiful, thought provoking
    mapping
    shows us where and how to go
    and where we've been
    I will carry it all within

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  6. valerie, jean,
    time mapping
    place mapping
    making a diagram of what we think we need
    but we don't know
    for sure
    jean's right
    carry it all,
    all within

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  7. anything that speaks of place speaks to me...

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  8. journeys, places, marks, traces - they're all there and maps help us find our place in the world. A lovely visual wander with you.

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  9. where we've been and where to go from where we are.

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  10. You are such an inspiration, Velma.
    I need to map my thoughts more.

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  11. ronnie, how important it is! and you and fiona live in the land where dreams are maps are stories are....WOW.
    neki, yes
    penny, me, too, always

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