EROS
The walk

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Eros Creates

Diotima says mortal nature seeks to continue itself, in body and in soul. Desire so often needs a form that can outlast the moment of wanting.

What happens when longing finds form?

Two hands working wet terracotta clay under a single warm lamp.
VISUALIZATIONMaking as a form of desire.
  • children
  • poems
  • music
  • institutions
  • ideas
  • works
  • stories
  • acts of care
  • knowledge
  • letters
A bronze filament of light becoming letterforms and ruled lines in a dark field.
VISUALIZATIONGenerated interpretation. Longing finding form.

Something interior becomes exterior: language, gesture, object, work. Consciousness reaching for a shape that can be carried.

What happens when longing finds form?

Notes · 1
  1. Plato, Symposium. Greek via standard editions. Dramatic date often placed around 416 BCE. Source

Eve

Eros Creates

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