Hello Alan, it is – 3 degrees here in Tagawa and the sky is like liquid
crystal cobalt blue, just breath taking to look at. Oh well, sigh.... I
only wish to clarify what may be my lack of clarification in that I am
not suggesting that the imagery stands alone but is the starting point
of the conversation. I am reminded of Jack’s story of knowing or
checking your audience,. In this list for example I do not know who my
audience is. I choose not to make assumptions as they are usually
wrong. What I was intrigued about is the different starting points
between Jack’s and my position of how we like to engage. It is this
difference that should be explored to encourage the other to be
represented. Academics I feel tend to become lazy in their efforts to
communicate and get used to or educated to a certain standard of
presentation. Hence my posting about level playing fields which Pip
responded so eloquently too. Pushing oneself out of a comfort zone is
perhaps the challenge. I am comfortable in chaos and complexity, I am
very uncomfortable by orthodoxy and conformity, hence I live on a
mountain top! I want to see non narrated clips of practice as I am
comfortable with the loudness of silence, my language of choice is
subliminal, words are such cages..smile. As my engagement with the non
silent space of the excluded textual narrative, ( using your speak!!)
progress. I am free to heuristically immerse myself in the images and
any learning; ideas that percolate to the surface are not tainted or
influenced by what the other thinks I should see. I am then free to
engage my meanings and understanding with others. At the same time I
do understand Jack’s position and I move back to my ideas of
inclusional space that celebrates differences.
Now is that might be called an esoteric expectation or is it a form of
communication that many outside of the western paradigm, find normal?
Love to all Je Kan
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