WORDS OF FEATHER
A space where thoughts find their form in words.
FRECCIA |'17
I am the shoal stream
which enfolds around your ankles
like a promise.
Your clear voice quivers
on my tongue. Your gaze
immersed in every breath I take.
| Lifted by the wind |
I draw landscapes,
like memories of something
that never was and yet is eternal.
In the midst of it all, the moon
rests on my skin. The surrounding
silence speaks in voices
that need no words.
I am the flowing one, the source.
I am the opening, the basin,
and the depth.
| through my iridescent mother-of-pearl |
I am the sea in your throat,
the spume on your skin,
the maelstrom beneath your eyelids.
I am the downpour, the dew.
I am the clouding, clarifying
and reflecting one.
I am the one
who dissolves
and then pervades
you completely.
| you glide to the bottom |
I am the shoal stream
which enfolds around your ankles
like a promise.
I am the movement,
the unspoken word
in your breath, the echo.
| oh mare, oh freccia |
It is the sun that awakens
our souls with its kiss.
Yet it is the shadows
that shape them.
The navel reveals the origin - where everything begins - the monas |'20
Here, the intersection of generations manifests, weaving our here and now with the depths of the past. At this centre, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze breathes: there is neither beginning nor end, only the eternal play of repli and dépli—the infinite folding and unfolding. With its bulbous, organic form, the navel fuses simultaniously the most mundane with the most remarkable; it is the embodiment of relation, our entanglement and interconnection.
The skin, as an organ of sensation becomes the medium of our devotion; its fine indentations and the delicate markings of time are but traces of lived experience. It breathes dimension into light and shadow, a depth, which is defining us as feeling beings.
The intimacy of the body fold chronicles our existence. We are the web of our relations—an endlessly flowing tissue finding its truth within the fold. Bound inextricably to the body, the fold bestows upon humanity a profound and boundless spectrum of emotion.