Compass and entusiasm
- DALIA Velandia
- Jan 28, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 1, 2024
writting as a movement practice
Eugenia Almeida: extracst from Inundación : 2010 please see the cover picture for more details.
I chose a mixture to quote some of the writer's poems like: Compass and Enthusiasm.
Here, you would find a free adaptation of my favourite notes, re-appropriations of it that are not literal quotations and also the translation is made by from Spanish by myself with the help of an online tool: Why to write. about writing and poetics: writting and desire,
" manual de instrucciones
"manual de instrucciones sobre lo que irrumpe"
Perdón lo que irrumpe es irrefrenable"
instruction manual on what bursts in".
Sorry what bursts in is irrepressible".
"writing around mirrors "..
beyond writting but that does not belong to writing
writting "
un compás de espera.
la pausa en medio de la escritura: la escritura como movimiento, como desplazarse,
como amorosamente renuncia a soltar el propio punto de vista para ver otra cosa.
a compass of waiting.
the pause in the middle of writing:
writing as movement, as moving,
as a loving renunciation to let go of one's own point of view in order to see something else.
otra cosa.
somethingelse.
Un compás de espera.
a compass of waiting
Todo lo que huye en ese momento.
Exactamente antes de
La pausa en medio de la escritura
Los ojos que buscan .
(....) la respiración the breathing ,
Everything flees at that moment.
Exactly before
The pause in the middle of writing
The eyes that search.
(....)
Breathing
(...)
the hand resting on one side,
it is written with the body.
It is not a mental activity.
You write with your back, your hands, your eyes, the back of your neck, your legs.
Every time there is writing, it is a body that writes.
la mano que se apoya a un lado, se escribe con el cuerpo. No se trata de una actividad mental.
Se escribe con la espalda, las manos, los ojos, la nuca , las piernas.
No hay que olvidar eso. cada vez que hay escritura es un cuerpo el que escribe
about writting
my attempts at writting and reading are part of this materials that co exist.
