LOST

What does it mean to ‘lose’ something?

In Richard McGuire’s fabulous book ‘HERE’, there is something so calming about registering ones own presence at just one mini poem in a whole universe of time. So much of life is about ‘acquiring’ but this acquiring is always someone or something else’s losing. So when do we call it losing and when do we call it simply, giving back that which was also taken?

Just as all the ways in which our houses can fall apart, sometimes our words can also fall away too. It is all so slow and unsatisfying —words really are monuments to an idea from a time— how do we undue what we don’t want, and refigure what we do want, when the world, by its very nature is so exquisitely plural. Live and Let Live is a great idea in principle, but in practice it is REALLY hard to negotiate! But maybe that is why humanity is associated with the word ‘cultivate’, culture. We also try to cultivate and nurture particular things and let other things, still able to present, but less supported and therefore gain less traction. IDK. it’s all so fraught - the good and the bad. I just love how this conceptualist, puts it all on the same page for us to consider, through time, the merits and the insignificance of so many things, all at the same time. Maybe nothing is ever lost.

Everything is an experiment of expressive form.