ALTERUTOPIA
What are the coordinates of an image in a mirror?
The body occupies space and space, between atoms, occupies the body. We are familiar with the idea that we circulate through space, moving from place to place. To think of places moving around inside of us is not so commonplace. I must warn you of the fact that this text does not aspire to any logical rigor. Only a fool would require consistency about the odyssey of an idea, or about the journey of a feeling. This is about Image-in-action, HEADING towards... my mind (Mind the gaps of the mind!). Leaving the mind to travel free, from an image to another image, from a reflection to another reflection, in motion. In motion, emotion. Emotions moving us, in the path of passions, evoking places lost in memory. The memory that drags time which drags space. So, W.(here) W.(ere) W.(e)? In a place with no coordinates. If space is four-dimensional and the process of remembering (of bringing things back to present, here) does not follow a KRONOS-LOGIC, it is difficult to assign coordinates to the extremes of movement of an idea, from a point a) to a point b). In this place of constant b)comings, we will need new mental maps, a new topology of the mind, in every new relation. When we change into a new paradigm, we have to re-place things, finding new constellations in a space of different nature. Consider a song you really love. Think of you listening to it. Imagine it in terms of sound and not in terms of a picture, the sound landscapes, as far as this music takes you. Let us call these places States: States of mind. Transitory places, these states are like stations. We call them feelings. States where the field of the extension, such as an image in a mirror, becomes the field of intensive. Reflex is in-flux. Interior becomes intimacy. Causes become “becauses”. And we are in a constant movement between intensities and status. We are the Reunited States of the Self. There are places that we build not to dwell...