The loop doesn’t contradict hope. It necessarily demands something else, somewhere else, beyond the everyday, elsewhere. The different modes of my practice form a continuous circle, a circle of continuous activity, driven by metaphysical code switching. I’m interdisciplinary, sometimes the designer, the writer, the filmmaker, the entrepreneur, working across mediums, towards a collapse of boundaries. I take on whatever role I need to get my ideas into the world. I create my own structures outside of established conventions. I work from the margins. I privilege my ignorance. I think in public. Langston Hughes said it this way: “I used to wonder about here and there. But I think the distance…is nowhere.”
from Insights 2014, a talk by Martine Syms (via ahistoryofanxietyandanxietyand)
