Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'
Interpretation
The quote encourages envisioning a vibrant, dynamic world full of color and movement, prior to preconceived notions.
Stan Brakhage's quote invites us to imagine a reality that transcends linguistic constraints, where the beauty of the world is seen through its colors and movements rather than limited by words. It suggests a state of pure perception that is devoid of the semantic interpretation we usually impose on our experiences, encouraging a deeper appreciation of the visual and sensorial life surrounding us.
In practice
This quote can be shared during an art exhibition to inspire attendees to view the artwork with fresh eyes.
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of βGreen?β How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?
How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.
My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in a direction that is satisfying in the here and non.
The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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