a note on liminality of being

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This week, a professional mime talked about the nature of performance for the PBS News Hour (link, at the end here, after I enstance my own frame on it).
His is an artistic take on performance, but its implicit value to me includes its dramatizing how all action is performance: We do things, either at a distance of self in the stance toward the action (particular intent); or/and with a frame (or perspective) on the situation that’s relevant to action. We tailor our action (at least implicitly) to be apt in a twofold way: apt to our limited intention (stance) and apt for the situation (relevant frame). We make stances toward enacting by limiting our intent. We make frames toward acting dressed by what’s suitable.

“To be clear, this was reality, not ‘SNL.’”

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My title is a line in the Washington Post article about last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Clarity is good.

Getting to the clearing may be difficult for some sensibilities; e.g., seeing the unbearable uncanniness of one’s ordinariness (not to mention the unbearable persistence of viciousness, etc.)

creative process, event of appropriation

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My landscape of topics ahead feels so rich that I want to enjoy not yet deciding where to go next. Like having a clear conception of a painting, which doesn’t determine what part to begin with or to work on next, a story may be written from scenic designs that pop up with no hint yet where in a grand narrative they are to belong. Voices play around. A jazz of characters play their lives, while the painter-writer-composer documents in witness...