Process is the work — False Parameters

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There is a conceptual core to our work, but / and, that core is alive, dynamic. With every new piece of the puzzle we find during our deconstructing and re-synthesizing of models forays, it transcends and rebirths itself to host new information.

The process, really, is following our noses in a kind of sensual meandering. Thought-forms are part of that sensuality, and conversation becomes a fabric with distinct properties, like a textile, a material we begin with when exploring what and who enters our field: passing phrases, situations, publications, “writings on the wall”, images, sounds, scents, movements. And people of all wonders and sorts.

The current terminology of innovation and “social change” can be overwhelming yet thin. Dead weight. Plethora of abbreviations. So we move as if with a ley-line wand, following where the energy gathers, where something feels alive yet not fully formed. Something is present but has not yet been translated or fixated.

While reading the present moment, we hover over the felt implicit and the subtle that has not yet revealed its meaning.

Our process is kaleidoscopic, full of departures and forays into the unknown with others. This “work” is the fruit of simultaneous collaborations across different fields of practice. Hence the thematic complexity.

“This method is basic, easy, and relaxing, even if it has proven less than efficient.”

— Sophie Calle, “Suite vénitienne”

Time is essential, and of value as curved somehow to allow organic growth. Because this idea of “solving complex problems”, this notion that we’re going to solve them, feels so flat, so two-dimensional.

What matters is the unfurling over months, years, together with others.

So the process, or even the method, moves away from something streamlined toward something rather impressionistic.