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/

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

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

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/

"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/

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

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/

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/

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

#fallowing #fallow #doingnothing #sabbatical #transiency

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

Lying Flat

Tangpingism, a movement encouraging its proponents to lay flat.

#tangping #lyingflat

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

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

#seasons #seasonalwork #seasonalprogramming #time

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

Navigating the liminal and the in-between.

#transition #liminality #riteofpassage #transiency

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

"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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

#spectroscope #spectral #ocular #colour #monocular

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

Portals. Crossing thresholds with the care they deserve.

#portal #transition #treshold

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

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/

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/

Otherworlds Oozing. Glimpses of the mythical amidst the mundane.

#mythopoetic #epictimes #mythmaking #peregrination

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

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

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

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

Cornerstone of the Outer Monastery. Notes towards a manifesto, a pattern language, generative guidelines for a network of places where we can grow our own worlds.

#proposition #zibaldone #quietplaces #superject #hermitage #attention #introspection #anarchiving

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

Isolation Training. Locked down, cast out, alone and together, together and alone.

#practice #resilience #endurance #isolation #calisthenics #anarchiving

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/isolation-training/

Art of Something Larger. The potential of museums, galleries, theatres and other arts organisations as refuges amidst cultural dissonance and social upheaval.

#art #awe #sacred #beauty #belonging #secular #museum #temple #anarchiving

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/art-of-something-larger/

Ties, Bonds, Grips. Things to cling to.

#coexistence #improvisation #continuity #receptivity #connection #repair #anarchiving

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/ties-bonds-grips/

Being with. Helping cope, without intervening.

#care #anthropocene #anarchive #wabisabi

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/being-with/

To care, with care, for care. Allow yourself to be touched.

#care #artandcare #time #anarchive #wabisabi

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