the walker + the maze

kelly nayaase-naxhiñaa' krugman savvy contemporary and independent berlin based, gringa oaxaqueña curator and cultural worker

[thomasmartinnutt]

Otto Piene. Nachtsonne (The Moon Upon Which It Depends), 1965

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Chilkat Tlingit; Chilkat robe (naaxein), ca. 1850-80; mountain goat wool, cedar bark, native dyes.

[nobrashfestivity]

Leonora Carrington The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) 1947

[seemoreandmore]

But this morning, a kind day has descended, from nowhere,

and making coffee in the usual way, measuring grounds

with the wooden spoon, I remembered,

this is how things happen, cup by cup, familiar gesture

after gesture, what else can we know of safety or of fruitfulness?

Marie Howe, "From Nowhere"

[ancientcharm]

[nobrashfestivity]

Paul Klee

[improvisedliturgy]

Is there a way of being intellectual that isn’t social? When I think about the way we use the term ‘study,’ I think we are committed to the idea that study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice. The notion of a rehearsal – being in a kind of workshop, playing in a band, in a jam session, or old men sitting on a porch, or people working together in a factory – there are these various modes of activity. The point of calling it ‘study’ is to mark that the incessant and irreversible intellectuality of these activities is already present.

Fred Moten, "The General Antagonism: Interview with Stevphen Shukaitis" in The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study

[smsomah]

68-year-old Touda Oulmimed of the Ait Haddidou tribe wears a handira. Imilchil, Morocco. Scanned from the book Imazighen: The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women; 1996; Margaret Courtney-Clarke

[killyridols]

march by ever baldwin, 2022, oil on canvas in charred wood frame, 42 x 33 x 6 inches

[smsomah]

Chengdu, China, 1959. Wolfgang Schröter

[newguineatribalart]

Aboriginal Dot Art

[victormalonso]

poem to your soul | © víctor m. alonso

[noosphe-re]

By word is not meant a word that is audible only to the ears; by word is meant all that is conveyed to you, all that is expressed and comes to you as a revelation. It means that what you hear with the ears, what you smell with the nose, what you taste, what you touch, what you perceive through all the different senses and through all that becomes intelligible to you—that is a word. It is life's mission to convey something to you, and everything that it conveys to you is a word. Through whichever sense you experience it, through whichever sense it is conveyed to you, it is a word. It is not only upon the five senses—taste, hearing, seeing, smelling, and touching—that the word depends; we call them five senses because we experience them through five different organs. In reality there is only one sense, a sense that experiences life through the vehicle or the medium of the five external senses. As life is experienced through these five different directions, the experience of life becomes divided into five different experiences, for the word—or life—becomes visible to us, tangible, audible, it can be smelled and it can be tasted. But besides these five aspects in which we are accustomed to hear the word there is another aspect of hearing the word, independently of the five senses, and this way of hearing the word is called the intuitive way.

Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Mysticism of Sound and Music

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book The Jewelry of Nepal; 1999; Hannelore Gabriel

[smsomah]

Wadi Daw'an, Yemen; silk and cotton dress with couched silver thread embroidery and Indian silk inserts; first half of the 20th century

[gacougnol]

Tina Modotti (Italian, 1896 - 1942)

Rosa Covarrubias con rebozo, nd

[newguineatribalart]

Australian Aboriginal art by Thomas Nandjiwarra Amagula