To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In [Walter] Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography.
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Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
this feels so relevant right now, especially with respect to the art classes I’ve been taking, which have focused on the honest, physical, synaesthesic response to a figure model and exploring the creative process with respect to such responses — a psychic state achievable through the geography of the human form, and my reaction to it. (via chirp)
huge fan of your charcoal gestures :)
