Effects of the imagination
To live in his own imagination,
allows himself to be touched by his thoughts,
to feel how ideas can excite…
Rich, consummate fulfilment
in a moment of mighty imagination
makes all action superfluous.
Effects of the imagination
To live in his own imagination,
allows himself to be touched by his thoughts,
to feel how ideas can excite…
Rich, consummate fulfilment
in a moment of mighty imagination
makes all action superfluous.
Extraordinary
I’m thrilled, excited
and full of ideas,
but serenely without any sense of time
and without agitation.
Attacks and disputes
tempt me to incite,
but I do not raise my voice,
I do not cry out!
Happy, gay and garrulous,
I laugh along with my guests.
I read a foreign language uently,
without understanding a word.
The remarkable
attracts me in the extreme,
is strangely stimulating
and the source of my originality.
So many different aspects of me
have to be discerned and told apart
for the noblest of them to be made out
between the banal and the special
Drive
Who calls me, calls on me?
Who motivates me,
sets my legs in motion,
my body, my head?
Am I being pushed, pulled?
Rolled, thought, elevated?
Am I the only one
to get myself moving?
Cause and effect
Discontent without a cause,
he suffers inexplicable torments,
is greatly alarmed by the tiniest surprises
and sees water flowing, where none flows.
He hears nothing, yet still it resonates in his ear:
“Do things happen for no reason?”
He who respects nothing, obeys no command,
is indifferent to all that is ordained,
will try to elude causalities
and to create causes of his own.
He will defend imagined effects
as safe, palpable realities.
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Simultaneity I want only to sit and stare, to squat in a state of leaden immobility, to avoid seductive simultaneity! Have mercy! Movement gives me ideas. the palms and soles are hot - I do everything at once and am happy! Great! Does jubilation fade away before its cause? Is desire a bait or something induced? Do sensations stimulate me before the stimulus? Oh yes!? Should I consciously coordinate my life, actively synchronize my actions, or take pleasure in everything at the same time? What to do? |
Letting go
Mother, who in the cold winter of separation
believes in the future blossoms of her child’s spring;
daughter, who anticipates the old mother‘s leave-taking;
son, uncommitted and at liberty:
When the cement of anxiety fixes us to a situation,
may trust in the unknown enable us to let go.
Letting go
Mother, who in the cold winter of separation
believes in the future blossoms of her child’s spring;
daughter, who anticipates the old mother‘s leave-taking;
son, uncommitted and at liberty:
When the cement of anxiety fixes us to a situation,
may trust in the unknown enable us to let go.
The text are inseparable part of Ute Bauer's artworks. The original text are in German, translated into English and French.
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