RIGIDITY

What is rigidity? The pairing up of occurrences too neatly as a mirrored recurrence of one to another. That sameness creates a continuum which is an unfaltering line. A single track in a single dimension. That lack of punctuation comes to mean not moving at all; rigidity. The continuous buzz of unchanged.


There needs to be a shift, a slight displacement. A leaning to, a swaying out of a posture. The socket burrows down, the branches sway. There is alteration in the pelvis, the chest. Between containment and dispersal there is contrast.


In the space of that differentiation a process starts. There are staccato breaks in continuity. A splaying apart of a thread. It’s shredding and re-knotting. Winding and unwinding. That process now the continuity. Break and mend enveloped into one another. This is the force of dimensionality. A building up and around each instance into entwined depth. A rope with thickness, twist, give and take. A rope that is pulled and pulls back. A back-bone around which a jelly-fish recollects itself. An impression sought in each contact.


Association with the surface of an environment- with one another, each turn-taking as the context, re-bound surface for the other. This bat and ball. This mutual lop-sided energiser. Give and take. A pump. An engine. Air surrounding becoming breath.

Transformation and change. Movement and rest. Adaptability. Consciousness and sleep. Lazy mornings. Task and repose. Eat and company.


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When this is not forthcoming; when the process is inhibited mid-sentence, there is a building up of one semblance of a tendency to toxic levels and this manifests in an extremity of behaviour. A tendency towards outward thrust, inward containment, a plummeting down or a rising up ever higher like a balloon without an anchor.


There may be vomiting, the loss of liquid from every orifice as an extreme correction to a former protectionism; a storing away, a ferreting away and eking out of resources. A claw-handedness; an introspection as if in a war-zone where self-preservation is a mission unto itself.


This in turn may be a self-correction to a period of volatility; a blowing in the wind and a catching onto this fancy or that; a riot of colour and sound. A mutability. An affability to all that passes. A physical attraction that is unstoppable. Dissolvement into this fire-cracker of life. Burnt raw.


This may be countered by a need for immersion; a liquid stuckness. A drowning immersion into a soundless depth. A slow-motion fish-bowl existence, tapping on the glass that is sound-proofed and dissolves and softens all the lines of life.


So these extremes play out in this strange dance of cause and affect each an inverse of the other, each a caricature cure of one another yet none truly touching, interpolating with one another into new beings, new creatures of dimensional subtlety.


Sometimes it is necessary to let these spontaneous spasms and their morose counter-parts play out. Gradually these affects of intense agitation and inert despondency begin to creatively admix and as they do so they become an entwined dynamic where response is always the on-going conversation or assemblage of both.


They mediate, contain, extend and subvert one another and so the lines bend, move, wiggle, swell and thin into tails of smoke. An air-plane with an ever extendable trajectory that cannot be planned out in advance for it is adapting to weather conditions, air pressure gradients and the hot and cold shafts of atmospheric ratings.


Each moment is a meeting and a composition out of all these elements that converge, absorb and disperse at every instant.

Capacity is an ambience of multiple tendencies that are lived according to ways of approach, timed collisions, rushed embraces and prolonged associations.

All that is a breathing mechanism lived out in the punctuation of proximities and distances. Intervals through which thoughts and bodies evolve and dissolve again upon one another and through one another.

Association is always a way to reshuffle extremes that would otherwise run into paradoxes of a purity that is uninhabitable.

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Autism needs these admixtures for realignment on a bodily-mental-emotional-sensory-cognitive level.

Trust in contact is the single pronged approach to all these diversities.

Alignment-Tilt-Tendency.

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How can contact make this process responsive?

Activated.


Feeling-beholding-tolerance.


Assemblages that need no observer outside.


A practice of craftsmanship.


Bolting together of assemblages.

No separation.

No boundary.


Heart to heart through physical contactability.


Physical to supersede physical into the virtual.


LOVE