Monday, April 16, 2007

String and Surroundings

1.stillness
2.balance
3.left
4.right
5.uneven
6.walking
7.pausing
8.within
9.parrallel
10.schedule
11.following
12.forward
13.sidewalk
14.sidewalk
15.heads
16.bodies
17.stopping
18.string
19.whimsical
20.tracking

Zac

Starting with our beginning point, he unwinds the string slwly. Leading himself down the stairs, and outside through the door. He winds the large ball of yarn around of signs, sidewalks, and across the small road. People don't seem to notice. It twists needlessly around patches of grass. It reminds me of blind exercises or a fairytale something that is : odd, useless, and nessesary. The string is secure enough to return the holder to whence he came.


1.unwinding
2.stairs
3.down
4.outside
5.string
6.around
7.leaves
8.across
9.sidewalks
10.pausing
11.standing
12.stopping
13.holding
14.beside
15.opens
16.clothes
17.tangles
18.paths
19.knots
20.up


Leusa

As people leave the building, they adjusted themselves to walking outside again. You can tell those who move on a schedule because immediately they lead themsleves , so go forward moving there bodies then their heads. Others immeadiately adjust on a diagonal, left or right, sometimes pausing. Most people don't look around, others look about carelessly as they orient themselves to the space. the string twists and floats on wind, wound around posts and across the road. It seems as though people don't notice it or they choose to ignore it. Either way it is strange. Whimsical, like a fairytale. I try to make myself perfectly still and adjust my body to itself. My left side is more delicate than my right side, however, both, feet refuse to stay pefrectly on the ground. I notice my body continues to move within.

1 comment:

Norah Zuniga Shaw said...

Leusa what gorgeous words and ideas. I love the sensitivity you have to your own physical experience.