Home is one’s own body. Like a snail, we always carry our home with us. Its weight, rather than forcing us to drag our bodies, makes us move closer to the earth, wherever we are.
Thank you Nisha for your comforting and welcoming comment. I do not take it for granted. The “developed” world seems to be such fertile soil for the vine of apathy to grow endlessly, that your response brings new and fresh hope to my artistic experience. As a person who lives in the midst of an industrialized society, it is very important for me to witness that a twenty year old artist is able to take interest in my personal struggle with homelessness and the body.
To new generations, the body has become external locus. Displaced by a cyber experience that is completely outside the physical body, young people seem to find it hard to relate to their own. It is indeed a new form of homelessness the consequences of which can be seen physically in the alarming increase of obesity among children and teenagers in North-America, and emotionally in the disconnection and lack of empathy they seem to contain. Perhaps that is why I find your comment so valuable and enlightening. You recognize that in the acknowledgement of your “body’s histories and intersections lays the access to experiences far beyond the corporeal” where you “are starting to find an even truer sense of home.” I believe that with the constant radical and dramatic demographic shifts caused by war and economic circumstances, the ongoing destruction of our natural environment, the social violence that permeates the urban landscape and the overpowering influence of cyber culture and globalized economies, the body becomes a home and a door to more essential awakenings.
Thank you Nisha for your comforting and welcoming comment. I do not take it for granted. The “developed” world seems to be such fertile soil for the vine of apathy to grow endlessly, that your response brings new and fresh hope to my artistic experience. As a person who lives in the midst of an industrialized society, it is very important for me to witness that a twenty year old artist is able to take interest in my personal struggle with homelessness and the body.
To new generations, the body has become external locus. Displaced by a cyber experience that is completely outside the physical body, young people seem to find it hard to relate to their own. It is indeed a new form of homelessness the consequences of which can be seen physically in the alarming increase of obesity among children and teenagers in North-America, and emotionally in the disconnection and lack of empathy they seem to contain. Perhaps that is why I find your comment so valuable and enlightening. You recognize that in the acknowledgement of your “body’s histories and intersections lays the access to experiences far beyond the corporeal” where you “are starting to find an even truer sense of home.” I believe that with the constant radical and dramatic demographic shifts caused by war and economic circumstances, the ongoing destruction of our natural environment, the social violence that permeates the urban landscape and the overpowering influence of cyber culture and globalized economies, the body becomes a home and a door to more essential awakenings.
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