Fragmentation —of a community, of a state of historical affairs, of a set of assumptions about the world— can be used as a platform on which to build a story, or a set of references that become a poetic explanation of events, or a philosophical analysis of what may have seemed like cause and effect in one moment, while later it seems like a set of inevitable pieces fitting together to form the “big picture” that was somehow most likely to take shape.

Not so much “coincidence” as arriving at the moment of certain ascendant qualities, fitting the moment, qualified for the chance demands of the hour… try writing about how these sort of forces converge in the emotion, in the atmosphere, or in the person or group in whom your piece finds its center. Poetry, fiction, essay, reporting, non-fiction, even theoretical writing, can benefit from this approach…

Explore the idea of neglect and its consequences on shaping a story, on the development of human character, individually or in groups, in the built environment, in the natural environment, in the results of human efforts to make or to re-make the world. What we often think is just a sensation, or an emotion, can also be a driving trend, a zeitgeist, in society or in historic developments.

The dress and fashion exhibited in a given social environment, or in one individual’s tastes, can be a manifestation —or can be seen as a manifestation— of subconscious or of dramatic events, future or past. Explore the ways in which such information tells a story without having to tell the story, or how such information tells us something about a character, a scene, an event, a way of looking back.

Es un paisaje de relevancias inesperadamente centrales e imprescindibles que he descubierto en volver a pisar este territorio almado, sentido, visceral, es una geología de acontecimientos inmersos en el espíritu, confesiones casi imposibles, miradas que lo explican todo tan abierta como cautelosamente, un oleaje de necesidades que por suerte son también gustos y lujos, intermitencias y alas que nos llevan a algo más duradero : me doy cuenta a cada rato en estos días que veo posibles interpretaciones alternativas para mis sentimientos, que por reflejo voy rechazando, para después darme cuenta que no sería auténtico no reconocer que todo se se ve influenciado por el hecho de que me vea así forzado a dejar esta ciudad que tanto amor me ha proporcionado, y en la que tantas dificultades quedan irresueltas : amar y dejar a la vez llega a ser un conflicto que es también paradoja, que es insostenible, que tiene que decantarse en otras decisiones, tiene que ser amar para saber amar, estar para saber estar, y vivir lo que es un reto del momento, de este momento del camino, un proceso de enfrentarse con dificultades cuyo fin será posibilitar que esté más cerca del territorio donde ese amor existe…

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