sandcastles. body with sand with water

body with sand with water

is not metaphor.

it is methodology.

grain by grain,

drop by drop,

body becomes with matter.

not observing, not shaping,

but intra-acting-

wet fingers, slick skin,

spine curled to ground.

the mix matters.

sand with water,

water with sand.

too dry, it crumbles.

too wet, it collapses.

it takes time to feel the rightness.

to know without measuring.

I used to call them castles.

Now- turrets.

towers with memory.

accumulated forms.

how high can I go?

a question of structure, yes,

but also of daring.

then:

make a window.

then another.

cut space into form,

absence into architecture.

this is learning.

familial, embodied,

passed not through speech,

but gesture. repetition.

a choreography of matter and memory.

body with sand with water.

this is how knowledge builds itself.

not in text, but in touch.

T. Page. (2024). sandcastles. body with sand with water [film-text]. DOI: https: //doi.org/10.17613/30eak-qt337