Why Would A Water Vein Need To Find A Place To Die?
Gallery Rotor, Valand Academy, Gothenburg
28/3 - 6/4, 2014
Photos by Thomas Schön.
The title “Why Would a Water Vein Need to Find a Place to Die?” is phrased as a zen koan, a type of question that aims to provoke great doubt and test a student’s progress in their thinking practice.
The title is a question based on several false assumptions.
Water does not act in the form of veins, like in the animal body, but merely reacts to geological conditions. Water does not really act at all as it possesses no agency as a being. Water does not perish, it adapts, but also, it is true that all things fade.
If opposing ideas are held in the mind at the same time the concepts coalesce, knit together and asunder. The way seeing through a net is both an abstracting veil and a grid for measurement.
( ɹǝʇuǝ oʇ ɥʇɐǝp ɹoɟ ǝɔɐld ou sdǝǝʞ ʇᴉ ǝsnɐɔǝq ǝᴉp oʇ ǝɔɐld ɐ puᴉɟ oʇ pǝǝu plnoʍ uᴉǝʌ ɹǝʇɐʍ ɐ )