what beauty will save the world?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
editorial
a r e e n c h a n t e d nervous system
entangled in old, obsolete forms
a heavy, charged, opaque, frozen fabric
a heavy, suffocating feeling
the origine
roots
the past
places, people
© Imgur
the links forged
family, friends, intimate relationships
loyalty, guilt
© galactic parent
la filiation
attachments, projections
identifications and rejections
morality, religion, spirituality
the implicit
© Erick Oh
the couple, the flatmates, the tribe, the family
being, living together?
making a commitment
formalising, stabilising ties
union? marriage?
how? what forms?
what’s agreed and what’s not
to have a child or not?
generations
ascendants, descendants
growth and decline
death and dying
rebirth
all so muddled and confused
an urgent need to reinvigorate the fabric, a necessity!
to reactivate it, to recirculate the sap, to make it more fluid
a return to Life!
give it some slack
a relaxation, an abandonment, a laissez-faire that revives anaesthetised, necrotic, forgotten tissues
electroshock!
our nervous system suddenly reconnected to everything
a dazzling activation that brings us back to Life
© Jean Mallard
in the background: the presence of beauty
it’s everywhere
fresh, ephemeral, timeless
it gives space, scope, air
it reconnects with the simple, the obvious
it settles, rests and provides a foundation
Arvo Pärt, Lamentate solitudine-stato d’animo
its power of attraction lifts the veil
Life is there, vibrant !
© Jean Mallard
