run away from modernism
Gestures are traces in time.
Time is spatial, meaning corporeal.
This makes us humans
susceptible
and dependent
on technologies–humans are technological beings.
human bodies
took millions of years
to evolve
along with forests,
mountains, rivers,
plants, cities, animals,
estuaries and winds.
Oceans of relationships
shattered
by the dark sticky speeds of oil.
the idea and execution of comfort
as universal translation
of free lunch.
Fossil fuels render rush
where what we need is slow.
a call to sprint to technologies of care
attuned with~to
millieu
so as
not to kill
it-self-everybody-everything-all-at-once
while unmediatedly becoming reverse-orphans as we die.
such neurosis of the mono- and the uni-
such unadmitted reluctance to leave stage.
hands—the secrets of fire-keeping—artifice
staying warm—an art.
Commerce shall continue.
art is the capacity
to respond to immediacy
with maximum potency
with a desire
to accept how much of the world I am involved with
and it in me.
to care : to project : to proact
to make more probable
art is taking care of it-self
while making sure everyone knows
there is no such thing
as a free lunch.
art is an excess
opening—the plus sign
protruding in the pursuit of others
with snow•pea-like tenderness,
sweetening until touched
bibi calderaro, brooklyn, ny august 2024
Bibi Calderaro is a Brooklyn-based transdisciplinary artist, curator, educator and scholar whose work is intended for solo and communal enjoyment while learning to walk tenderly.
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