For Patric Sandri
MANUAL
To see: to dance with the prepositions.
Adapt yourself to their movement.
If they want to stay where they are, let them stay: behind, in front, above, below.
If you try to force them into anything, something will break.
Get rid of explanations. Every time you explain something, you risk destroying it.
That’s how explanations have always worked and will always work.
Like forest machines.
To see: someone something calls out to you and you call back.
To see: to be touched.
Time/event: when the prepositions switch places.
Don’t explain. Everything breaks.
If it breaks, you won’t be able to repair it, because you never understood it.
If you broke it, let it remain broken. Maybe it will heal, but probably not.
The evening star is not the morning star, and light is not particles. Once there was a fire in our eyes.
Once, no word was needed for green.
Color: the thing’s gaze upon you.
Green eyes and Mary’s tears.
Don’t take the green from them.
Don’t take the yellow, the blue, or the red either, because it already belongs to someone, something.
Windows/Light: verbs.
It is never completely dark. Never completely silent.
Seven is a good number. Three is even better. Numbers are not always colorless.
Don’t explain. The explanation steals the green from the plants, the trees from the
forest, the light from the sun, and the meaning from the landscape.
It removes the parts from the whole until everything becomes worthless.
Then it meticulously gathers everything up in different folders and is very satisfied with itself,
even though nothing has been understood. Even though everything remains unseen.
The most important thing is to learn how to see:
The walls, the prepositions, the ceiling, the sky, the sunrises, the sunsets, and the extinguished suns deep beneath our feet; the becoming (das Werden) – how the room and the light and the color and the body and the gaze and the thought happen.
Jens Soneryd, September 12, 2024
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