Of what it isnt.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
♥ Thursday, December 25, 2008
Sometimes figuring out what it is involves asking what it isnt.It is human in essence, but not a body. If this is a body then we have no more freedom than the hand has over the head, or the leg over the muscle that pulled it in response to the tap on the kneecap. If that is the case, then there is no freedom and we are either all drones or mere reactions against actions. Nope. The body cant be it.It is not really a musical score. The existence of a musical score depends on each note being precisely where it is, doing exactly what it should be. A minim if replaced with a quaver makes music become noise. Although we all have our purposes, the purpose for which we are gathered goes further than what we are specifically designed for. So, a musical score as a metaphor doesnt fit.A jigsaw puzzle might be it? We complement -we make up for each others' shortcoming or that we begin where another ends. Where the metaphor fails is that people change. And looking at this as a huge mosaic fails to capture the fact that we are more than an aggregate of human beings striving to fit. All too, social.A journey together is misleading. A journey implies a destination- so it is self defeating if the point of this journey is to simply journey, without having a destination. And it assumes that the destinations are the same, if the starting points arent the same, how firstly is the journey together? How, secondly, can then be the destination be together? The only way this happens is through force. Shove the others on that same bus, so that we can be on it together. And we know what force does. Every action has an equal an opposite reaction.Director, actor, act. Choreographer, dancer, dance. In a dance, the dancer is in a way, the choreographer -she chooses the moves she makes. Its all about choice. The dancer is then both creator and creation, both painter and potrait, both actor and act. She moves from being calefare to being lead actor, from simply harmonising with others, to setting the melody for which other harmonies pursue. The dancer moves from background to foreground, and back. Just like how the spotlight moves from the individual dancer to the entire dance. Lets take the act of crucifixion. The spotlight of humanity's suffering was shone on the bearing of scourges on one man. It is both light and reflection. The act placed human sin in the spotlight for the Divine Audience and divine salvation in the spotlight of the human audience. It reflects to the DIvine who man is, and man who the Divine is. Creator and creation. Saviour and Salvation. Both acts at once. Like the dancer and the dance. One cant do without the other, and one is the other.If faith is in believing what we cannot see, then a dancer is an emblem of that- a movement in pursuance of a larger whole that can only be grasped by the belief that there is beauty in such.
