By Francis Scudellari
How now shape this, empty vessel?
By content? Better being filled,
Passive gaining, essence poured-in,
A timed receipt, life's liquid gift ...
But then, is still-being enough?
By purpose? Meaning flows from doing,
Active lessening, self poured-out
In channeled cleansing, life recedes ...
Or perhaps both … being-doing,
In-formed: Taken to/o giving forth,
Re-cycled truth: Ever between ...
Substance imbibes, brilliance spills out
How now shape this, empty vessel?
By content? Better being filled,
Passive gaining, essence poured-in,
A timed receipt, life's liquid gift ...
But then, is still-being enough?
By purpose? Meaning flows from doing,
Active lessening, self poured-out
In channeled cleansing, life recedes ...
Or perhaps both … being-doing,
In-formed: Taken to/o giving forth,
Re-cycled truth: Ever between ...
Substance imbibes, brilliance spills out
14 comments:
Interesting question. To what degree is the agent-self necessary? Necessary to whom?
pensa al contrario:
"to give a content to the shape"
Passive gaining, essence poured-in,
A timed receipt, life's liquid gift
Bravo. Well done. Do we learn passively? OR does it take effort.
Love the artwork.
BTW Francis. I have bequeathed yet another award to you. When you have the time drop in. Its at my latest post.
Take care.
~JD
Oh my Francis...that's all I can think to say. You have left me speechless!!
Hi Dave,
Yeah, it would require the proper social context for an individual to become necessary, and even that may be a stretch.
Hi Hanna,
What I was trying to describe is the defining of a shape by adding content. To some extent vessels, or carriers are defined by what they carry. So by putting a particular content into something, we create an identity for it.
Thanks JD, for the praise and the award! I'll check it out presently.
Hi Jackie,
Wow, that's a pretty flattering thing to say ... thanks!
type:
what was before?
hen or egg?
but,
if we examine in parallel?
the shape changes for the content in evolution?
then what you designs:
"all the streams run to me behind"(?)
- nietzsche
I think you're mimicking my style there :). I would say that both shape and content change together, each evolutionary step of one feeding the other. The question of a first anything doesn't make sense within such a continuum of being, as what was and what will be flow into each other ... like your quote from Nietzsche.
"Re-cycled truth: Ever between"
I love that line.
Thanks Les! I kind of liked it myself :).
Somehow, this makes me think of childbirth..vessel, essence, timed receipt...and yes, brilliance does spill out like a pure, unmarked slate.
Hi Kelly,
It's definitely about an unmarked slate ... I'm still fiddling with it though. I changed it a couple times since the first posting. I think it may be final now.
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