On Flamenco × Wabi-sabi

 

A line begins - not to define, but to move through. 
To shift. To break.
To pause.

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Flamenco moves through rupture -
through tension and release,

Duende (a concept in Flamenco:  a rupture where something true breaks through. To intentionally employ that which burns quietly from the center - raw, true, and made powerful through the clarity of practiced awareness)

It arises not from force,
but from a break in the voice,
a step held just long enough.

Motion through negative and positive space as architecture.

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Wabi-sabi, with reverence for time.
For the new that decay can create, the incomplete, and that which carries memory.

The space between marks (ma) carries just as much as the mark itself.
Activating the space in-between.

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Both traditions live in the raw.
Each embraces impermanence, presence,
and the trace that remains.

Practices of presence.
Both understand that what’s in progress may be most complete.

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From these values, a language of drawing emerges:
a visual rhythm of gesture and echo. A friendly wave at time ッ

Intention in Symbol.

Space and form speak equally.

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Like water.

by motion.
In flux.

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Maybe this is all an attempt to stay present.
To honor momentum.
To draw - not to capture, but to connect with.

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