The Emotion of Silence: C/RO Copenhagen. Appreciating the pendulum sway between form and function.
A review for Anniversary Magazine
C/RO Copenhagen - Image Irina Boersma
A Place Of Its Own
“Long Beach, New York is a borough of ages, weathered and reborn: an interaction between humankind and nature.”
The light here is noticeably clear and bright as is the air, if air can actually be described as bright, different none the less once arriving by train. The clustering of homes seem to shelter themselves from the saltiness the breezes toss upon their skins, leaving untreated woods well worn. Long Beach, New York is a borough of ages, weathered and reborn: an interaction between humankind and nature.
“Homes, no matter their location are all vessels, containing stories of its occupants and those who pass through.”
To create a home here is like any other, layers of memories and materials, though the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean brings its own particular influence. Homes, no matter their location are all vessels, containing stories of its occupants and those who pass through. What’s collected may seem trivial to the on looker’s eye, speaks volumes if one were to pause and listen, noticing the nuanced air they offer.
History has a way of speaking, ghosting in a room of other voices. Its visual language has a noticeable patina, a presence no matter stick or gold. Much like location, history changes, both in mind and material. It is here, that time is a layered document of outside and inside, emotion and memory.
Positioned throughout these spaces are objects of value, not necessary of monetary, but of memory. Evidences of the hand can be seen by way of art and the well crafted, represented by way of regions, utility and visual splendor. Objects created by person and nature sit side by side, evoking a mood of creative inspiration and calm, all within a shell of crisp ethereal white, mimicking the skies that surround.
“An homage to passing time and life well lived, well nourished.”
Though clustered, this home is a place of its own. A shelter from the outside world that celebrates the world. An homage to passing time and life well lived, well nourished.
Language
To speak of hope, despair must to be on the lips for hope to show its truest strength. But within this, what defines despair depends on the individual, and the depth of hope is dependent on the height and determination of will.
What defines the future is how we mold it with language, both verbal and visual. This is how life is built, through hopeful depiction and willful doing. It is through the languages of expression that emotion and life take form, where inner doubt can translate outward, finding clarity in images and words: emulsifying facts and desire.
“The arena of language is universal, transcending political affiliation, religious doctrine and social status.”
It is by way of the creative languages and the fire of emotion that resolve can be found. Here is where stagnation of government and social dogma is subverted, slowing the backward rolling stone. The arena of language is universal, transcending political affiliation, religious doctrine and social status. It goes beyond the physical built word and pierces the ancient self, manifesting its power of communication and deciphering change.
Sovereignty
Tokujin Yoshioka Glass Teahouse Kou-an
To find a quiet spot and retreat. To go within and defy defeat.
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There are many ways to approach a mountain, in order to move forward sometimes it is best to step back and pivot: erase and rewrite. Numerous challenges face our contemporary world, this is clear, and clarity of intention can lesson the overwhelm: lighten the fog.
“To be empathetic is to find empathy for oneself and the perfectly imperfect human condition.”
Empathy is a guiding factor and the web in which our citizenry binds. This is a necessary mirror in understanding our collective present and the hurling future. To be empathetic is to find empathy for oneself and the perfectly imperfect human condition. Personal sovereignty is something I seek to better understand my place in this world and to ground that place more solidly: to build a bridge for those around, internal metaphor a given.
Self Expressed
“The creative arenas, no matter which, all have the inherent ability to inspire emotion, thought and action.”
It is within the realm of the creative arenas that possibility is inspired, where the creative mind flourishes, igniting the cannon of change. The creative arenas, no matter which, all have the inherent ability to inspire emotion, thought and action. They each tap into and pull from the deepest human need to self express, to bridge the cap between the inner and outer worlds. Within the creative mind is a plethora of inspiration and resolve that can soothe our ills, calm the inner rattle and build the future possible.
History has shown centuries of our making, physical documents of our existence that not only celebrate beauty, but explore our fears and answer our need for utility. They decorate and mimic our bodies, stand in leu of developed verbal language and attempt to make sense of a black and vas universe. Discovered have been lost worlds, first tools and gods no longer praised. All nuanced with the evidence of the hand and story of the maker: expressive of the human condition, unraveling slowly in time.
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