#impossible lives

[t-u-r-n]

Footsteps in the wheelbarrow

[notasapleasure]

Reality is a construction project with no completion date

in sight. Of course a camera cannot capture itself. Of

course a telescope cannot see what it doesn't. Of course

they will delegitimize any viable alternative. But are we

trying to be legitimate, or are we trying to live?

Have bad manners: daydream always.

Lurking beneath every crisis is another: parched

imagination. Poet Amanda Gorman calls the country

simply unfinished, not broken. What if this world was

just one draft? What if everything could be rewritten?

The job of an artist is to replenish imagination. Is to say:

there are ideas we haven't considered yet. Feelings we

haven't encountered yet. Love we haven't surrendered to

yet. 'Yet' is the most wonderful word ever built. Let's live

there together. Redesign existence.

Impossible is an invitation to imagine something else.

- ALOK Vaid-Menon, impossible lives (from your wound / my garden)