Stephen I tried this in Raynes Park but it was a bit overkill on awe (not
the shallow sort and by the look of your efforts you could be arrested as a
stalker or burglar casing the joint
Cheers P
Ps take a strong female bodyguard with you says I
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 26 July 2008 23:19
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Subject: City Psyche - New de blog
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For all of you fellow domestic summer weekend slackers(!), you might be
interested in a new "City Psyche" blog series I have started - camera and
journal in hand - exploring San Francisco streets again. To get some some
sense, the opening passage goes:
A current challenge is to look for signs (text, image, etc.) that work as
collective epiphanies of life in this City, if not across the nation, globe,
etc. That is to explore the ways in which individual and collective psyche
emerge in an identifiable configuration. The process is probably most taken
from some combination of Jersey Grotowski's, Towards a Poor Theatre, and the
principles of Arte Povera. The brief sum of which is to work the streets
and - not ruling out the complex - to find texts and images within simple
and/or found materials. The additional task is not to belabor a critical
definition of any discovery. In fact, the primary impulse is to use eyes and
ears - or any of the other senses - reveal what makes for awe. I don't mean
awe in a shallow, romantic sense. But to find those situations in which the
senses are penetrated in such a way as to make you stop in your own tracks,
either for a second or an enduring space of time.
For example, I am walking across Guerrero at 19th Street at dusk on a
Friday evening. A young woman on a cell-phone is in the cross-walk just
ahead of my step. "Don't be fashionably late, sucker," she says, her voice
at full volume.
Your comments always appreciated.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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