Mastodawn

FoAM Jul 1, 2023

To mark the transition into the second half of the solar year, we tend to things transient, unfinished, and overlooked. Some experiments and impressions of being with the world-at-large, foreshadowing the 'wabi sabi' reader from the @FoAM Anarchive.

An invitation to wander, to watch and wait, noticing and letting things unfold. 🍂

#anarchive #wabisabi #transience #noticing #overlooked #unfinished #侘び寂び

[Caligraphy by Maki Ueda]

FoAM Jul 1, 2023

The exquisite & the liminal. 侘び寂び moods & textures, where matter records its own weathering. Worlds abide in the humble and mundane, with hints of worlds becoming otherwise.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/the-exquisite-and-the-liminal/

The Exquisite & The Liminal — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Jul 1, 2023

Stillness. Stills from a world in motion. Seeking out that which hides in shadows and flickers in refractions.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/stillness/

Stillness — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Jul 1, 2023

Where the Fireflies Glowed and Flickered Behind the Big Wooden Buddha Temple in a Summer Long Ago, and Other Lights in Other Years Blinked in the Liquid Darkness.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/where-the-fireflies-glowed-and-flickered/

Where the Fireflies Glowed and Flickered — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Jul 1, 2023

"Such is our way of thinking – we find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the pattern of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates."
—Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows.

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/in-shadow/

In shadow — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 1, 2023

Wherever you are at the moment, whenever you are here. A few approaches to the non-linear, from FoAM's #anarchive.

FoAM Aug 1, 2023

Warping time frames. Arrows and circles, warps and whorls; instances of movement from linear time to something else.

#time #timeframe #timewarp

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/warping-time-frames/

Warping Time Frames — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 1, 2023

The dance of not-knowing. Cultivating beginner’s mind in a thickening present.

#beginnersmind #notknowing #presence #meditation #play #improv

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/not-knowing/

The Dance of Not-Knowing — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 1, 2023

Fallowing as a regenerative practice, of benefit to fields, bodies and networks.

#fallowing #fallow #doingnothing #sabbatical #transiency

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/fallowing/

Fallowing — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 1, 2023

Lying Flat

Tangpingism, a movement encouraging its proponents to lay flat.

#tangping #lyingflat

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/lying-flat/

Lying Flat — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 1, 2023

Planning with the Seasons: an experiment in de-homogenising working time.

#seasons #seasonalwork #seasonalprogramming #time

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/seasons/

Planning with the Seasons — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 1, 2023

Navigating the liminal and the in-between.

#transition #liminality #riteofpassage #transiency

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/transitions/

Traversing Transitions — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 1, 2023

"Time did not so much elapse as grow less relevant."
—Thomas Pynchon

An impressionistic collage on timelessness, time unbinding, and the experience of being outside time.

#timelesness #time

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/timelessness/

Timelessness — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 23, 2023

Times Like These...

A spotlight on alternative temporal orders, where the hold of gridded time loosens or breaks; spaces and situations beyond the reach of the clock.
— @jcalpickard

#waiting #boating #gardening #suspension #slowness #repetition

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/times-like-these/

Times Like These — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

Honing our skills in the Crafts of Noticing, we've collated immersive, multisensory practices for being-in-the-world. Tried and tested in various situations and surroundings by FoAM & friends across multiple timezones.

#noticing #craft #embodied #attention #ecology #anarchive #wabisabi

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/crafts-of-noticing/

Crafts of noticing — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 26, 2023

The House is Haunted by Itself. Moving, Still. A call to partake in the radical act of noticing.

#groundstate #shimmering #haunting #meditation #stillness

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/house-haunted-by-itself/

The house is haunted by itself — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 26, 2023

Seeing Just as It Is. Meditating on a noisy, impermanent world.

#meditation #pausing #attention #noise #unfocusing #equinimity

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/seeing-as-it-is/

Seeing Just as It Is — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 26, 2023

Performing the Unknown. Human skins moved by the myriad skins of the Earth.

#bodyweather #butoh #VibrantMatter #attunement #ecology

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/performing-the-unknown/

Performing the Unknown — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 26, 2023

A Spectral Ocular. The making of an instrument to colour the world anew.

#spectroscope #spectral #ocular #colour #monocular

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/spectroscope/

A Spectral Ocular — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 26, 2023

Walk with Me. Why you must exchange your feet with your hands.

#handstand #antifragile #postman #movement #exercising #anarchive #wabisabi

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/walk-with-me/

Walk with me — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 26, 2023

Dwelling on Rocks. Geomantic sensing and sensemaking, or sifting through the noise of our mineral substrate.

#lithic #stone #rock #sand #geomancy #sensing #pattern

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/dwelling-on-rocks/

Dwelling on Rocks — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 26, 2023

MonsterCode. Encoding millennia of human and elephant evolution with the urban landscape of Amsterdam West.

#monstercode #memory #landscape #learning #oralculture

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/monstercode/

MonsterCode — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 26, 2023

Becoming Birdlike. On birdsong as a creative resource, enriching humans’ musical ideas and listening capabilities.

#composing #birds #birdsong #silence #dawnchorus #blackbird

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/becoming-birdlike/

Becoming Birdlike — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Aug 26, 2023

Vernacular Magic. Words become amulets. We chant and become enchanted. Carry love in our orange beaks. Welcome strangers with gestures of care. This is how it feels to be alive. With our ancestors and one another. We are here. In the now.

#vernacular #magic #grandparenting #childplay #ritual #arcana

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/vernacular-magic/

Vernacular Magic — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Sep 25, 2023

Figments of Affordable Mysticism. Accessible occult technologies and other instruments of everyday resistance to reductionisms and dualisms of our time.

#wabisabi #myth #mysticism

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/figments-of-affordable-mysticism/

Figments of Affordable Mysticism — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Sep 25, 2023

Re-enchanting the Present. An attempt to animate non-modern sensibilities of magic and ritual without becoming entrapped by dualisms of light and darkness, good and evil, us and them. From static matter to a space of operation. ∆[∆]

#enchanting #magic #ritual

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/re-enchanting-the-present/

Re-enchanting the Present — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Sep 25, 2023

A World Replete. The bubble as double agent, a symbol of existential uncertainty and a trope of playfulness.

#foam #bubble #refraction #uncertainty #playfulness

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/world-replete/

A World Replete — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Sep 25, 2023

Approaching the Inexplicable. A mycelial network. Eyes in the place of eyes, ears in the place of ears, tongues tasting chemical gradients across the fungal network of thread-like cells.

#mycelium #dialogues #HPI #fungi #earthcoding #mudmind

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/approaching-the-inexplicable/

Approaching the Inexplicable — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Sep 25, 2023

Hexecutable # query sibylline. Created through iterative generative processes, this text imagines visions from three of antiquity’s sibyls — Persia, Libica, and Delphica.

#hexecutable #spell #bibliomancy

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/hexecutable/

Hexecutable # query sibylline — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Sep 25, 2023

Spell Kit For Navigating Uncertainty. Speculating toward set of navigational instruments to accompany your spellwork.

#spell #navigation #uncertainty

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/spell-kit/

Spell Kit For Navigating Uncertainty — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Sep 25, 2023

Portals. Crossing thresholds with the care they deserve.

#portal #transition #treshold

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/portals/

Portals — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Sep 25, 2023

Panpsychic Propositions. Or "How the terms ‘mind’ and ‘matter’ are abstractions which in their concreteness are identical."

#panpsychism #spectral #matter #shimmering

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/panpsychist-propositions/

Panpsychist propositions — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Sep 25, 2023

Weatherlore. With our ears to the ground, following stories and sayings about the weather in times of climate change.

#weatherlore #weather #climatechange #proverbs #residency

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/weatherlore/

Weatherlore — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Sep 25, 2023

Otherworlds Oozing. Glimpses of the mythical amidst the mundane.

#mythopoetic #epictimes #mythmaking #peregrination

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/otherworlds-oozing/

Otherworlds Oozing — anarchive

FoAM anarchive

FoAM Feb 2, 2024

Convivia & Refugia. On making places for connection, imagination and transformation.

#refuge #sanctuary #solitude #conviviality #shapeshifting #hopewithoutoptimism #anarchiving

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/convivia-refugia/

Convivia & Refugia — anarchive

FoAM anarchive