CATCHMENT

Notes recent yrs:
We all have a framework that we hold open. It is our catchment- our opening out and containment. It is our story. Our Depth and our breadth. We cradle it with our being and a space exists here and where other life-forms gage it with their own being. There is a continuous reaching in and a sending out; an interpenetration of frames. We strike chords with one another in this way.

But there must be the setting of this gage in the first place for this to happen. The holding first of a set piece that becomes the instrument which beckons movement and so by channelling the wind that makes for music.

We speak to one another because we all hold forth these tuning Fawkes and like tentacles or aerials to the wind, they span out in order to pool and direct the air currents borne from the movement of life.

We are each of us both sounding boards and the sound emitting. Both frameworks that act as receptors and the dance patterns that relay over these frameworks. A script must have a surface in order to manifest. This surface is the context of our inherent being. Out of this we must explore and welcome one another.

It is our very uniqueness; our own particular set of co-ordinates that form the brief upon which others make their presence heard and felt. We are to them as they are to us. And together we are one. Contact is life.

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For recognition both of oneself to oneself and to one another, there must be the holding of a fixed gage through time. There must be duration. Patience is needed.

Only then can there be time for conscious approach and an affirmation of a meeting. We must hold a space, balancing a set of positions that span out and become a resonant sound chamber. Then we have prepared the ground, prepared the home in which all else distant and close can be understood as a relational position, or a multi-facetted alliance in which boundaries are not the end but the beginning of this resonance in that all contours become the chamber in which movement sings.