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\nWhenever we speak, there's a something from which speech arises which is not itself yet, quite, words. And when we make art, there's a something from which the art arises that is itself not yet, quite, art. And it's in this vast unspoken background of before and between, of body and world and story and imagination, that so much of who we are and who we can be is found. Can we learn to see and hear each other as the unfolding, budding, opening works of art and worlds of possibility that we are? And might not this be a greatly powerful act of dignity and care, countering the narratives of fear and separation of our times?
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nTurning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.\xa0 Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nWe\u2019re always rationally explaining and articulating things. But we\u2019re at our most intelligent in the moment just before we start to explain or articulate.\xa0 Great art occurs - or doesn\u2019t - in that instant.\xa0 What we turn to art for is precisely this moment, when we \u2018know\u2019 something (we feel it) but can\u2019t articulate it because it\u2019s too complex and multiple.\xa0 But the \u2018knowing\u2019 at such moments, though happening without language, is real. I\u2019d say this is what art is for: to remind us that this other sort of knowing is not only real, it\u2019s superior to our usual (conceptual, reductive) way.
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\nGeorge Saunders
\nFrom A Swim in the Pond in the Rain
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\nPhoto by Inge Maria on Unsplash\n