Language Is Luxury And Loaded
Tsm, 23 December 2020
Someday, silence was something I was considering a lot, in terms of how we value and think about different types of communication and how being articulate or loud can glean its own rewards. You know... ‘language is luxury, loaded and sometimes it’s nice'. Thinking about it now, I’m in a place where I’ve also been thinking about how loaded and luxurious silence can be, how (as you said) I don’t want to romanticise silence, but still have this appreciation of silence and what it can hold and how it can create space?
I liked that we focused on how we wanted to feel/ offer others to feel, let ourselves be really simple and playful about it rather than conceptualising too hard. I think it helped that there was already an emphasis on silence and space with the brief we were given, that it’s not boring but also, it’s fine to be a bit boring...
I think similar about language and being articulate... of course there’s value there.. At the same time I feel it’s way more socially impressive and attached to smartness than I wish it was maybe. It might be a bit of a tangent to go into this! LOL... I’ll just leave it at that thought for now.
I’m not sure how to directly relate this back to the piece but I guess it comes back to bigger ways of being with each other that are less pressured and transactional... Where you’re not being immediately held to whatever energy you bring and how you articulate yourself within a small window of interaction or whatever... and value not being contingent on what you give/unconditional posi vibes... that kind of thing. Thinking where there’s room for silence and thought processing but also the less clear-cut wavy emotional and sensory processing... not sure I have the specific words for this... but it’s huge when there’s space for it.
It’s nice feeling reminded of these things through making this with you, not necessarily just for the piece but also personally.
Also yeah :) I think appreciating silence isn’t necessarily romanticising, and being calmly romantic about things can be okay and fun too... Was more thinking about the popular thing of glorifying ~the unsaid~ as if it represents some god-tier level of intimacy above communicating needs and feelings...
Lots of love and hope your feeling better.
Sena.

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