Saturday, December 30, 2017

Béatrice Machet # 1- It's an Ocean

(Béatrice Machet # 1--  It' an Ocean)     

Hi everybody! happy to be here, glad to reconnect with Magdalena and thanks to Kit who launched the exchanges !

This poem was written after visiting an art exhibition : Les mondes flottants (floating worlds), biennale d’art contemporain 2017, Lyon ; and especially inspired by Hans Haacke’s works. (pictures to be found on the internet, just google Hans Haacke biennale de lyon)
but also a kind of answer to Kit’s words:

"you have to respect yourself to get going

we'll be the music here

Day Dot
it isn't even yet

so we tend to begin" 

I wish you all a very happy New Year from the Chicago area.





Below is the text, but I also post a picture of my screen as the poem appears in my file, since the blog-format doesn't allow it to be faithfully reproduced! 







It’s an ocean
it’s about water that lets me float
                             that supports me
It’s this everlasting flow as continuity in tune with waves and their  le n  g  t   h    s
it’s a never ending stream with no stop whatever rhythm is launched
it’ s about what is contained but gives shape           about moving forms
thus it’s about being both content and container
a satisfying fulfilling feeling



 
I wear it and it                                                      wears me        the ocean                       wears me      the deep deep deep deep            inner world                                                                                      deep inner                      inner                                                                                                                                                         world
I wear it and it                                                     
and it                                                                                                                                                         wears me
the deep deep deep
inner world
I wear it
is it inside the                                                                                               b                                        inside the body or outside                                                                                                                                     experience
is it experience                                                                                                           of the body or is
life within                                                                                                                                            ithin death                                       
is there any                                                                                                                                 border any boundary between
feeling                                                                                                                                                     and thought


is it what we call the mystery of incarnation
 




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