Concerning Human Space- Mood Board
Concerning Human Space
When the bus driver gets in his cabin
the bus driver is the oblong bus
He runs along
picking up passengers
who climb inside him
He's got the space to carry them
and so he makes himself this large
Inside, he's brimming with consideration
His skin though stay alert
to what is going on outside
He runs along
as if charged with electricity
And this is why he cannot bear
the way passengers inside him
are so callous about the space they take up
the inefficient way
they use their space at rush hour
Now listen, everyone
I'm not suggesting you should manoeuvre the bus
only that you should manoeuvre yourselves
and then you'll come to realize
how wide your shoulders are,
how thick your torso
and the whereabouts of your back
No, even before that-
each one of you should try
to brim over with consideration
until you grow a skin aware
of what is going on outside
If you can manage that
you'll be considering the town,
the world as well, of course the bus
Have you ever made yourself that large
considering a bus the way you did yourself?
Have you ever felt yourself and another
purely as space,
feeling another's torso
as though it were your own
feeling another's destiny
as though it were your own?
If you've felt this
you can put your own space next to someone else's
quietly
and in time's vacuum
set sail together
wrapped in love
And when you've achieved this
perhaps you'll be on friendly terms
with the driver too
-Yoshino Hiroshi
Poetry Lives!
McDougal, Littell &Company
1976
Scientist Natalia Avseenko uses yoga and meditaion techniques to hold her breath and withstand sub zero temperatures for up to ten minutes at a time ask she frolics with the whales, Nilma and Matren.
About The Emotive Performance-
"I'm thankful that I am surrounded by audacious, carefree, genuine people I can call my friends. It was really something to watch Chris stand amidst the crowd at PC, summing up the courage to challenge the gradients of societal norms by intruding upon well established boundaries of privacy. It was really something to observe the footage we took last night. It was inspiring to see that he was genuinely able to affect people with the passion embedded in his poetry and his deliberate, confident declamation.
I know that this video doesn't necessarily ebb with the flow of the masses, but my TA challenged me to go beyond my comfort zone and I feel that I successfully met her challenge. The concept of this project was to emphasize the merit of emotion. Violating public space, we juxtaposed a computer generated mp3 of Chris' poem with Chris reciting the poems himself; the former representing substance devoid of emotion while the latter represented the epitome of it. Few people reacted to the boom box. In the best of circumstances, people would turn around, stare for a moment or two, and continue on with their business. The moment Chris filled any space with his deep voice, however, people did not only listen but they also stopped in their tracks to grasp his message. I'm amazed at the attention he commanded.
Words are nothing in the absence of emotion. They can be read, they can be recited, but few can really deliver the feelings behind words printed on paper. My friend is truly a talented individual and it was a pleasure working with him."
-Kevin Guiang Paderes
The Angry Man
The other day I chanced to meet
An angry man upon the street-
A man of wrath, a man of war,
A man who truculently bore
Over his shoulder, like a lance
A banner labeled "Tolerance."
And when I asked him why he strode
Thus scowling down the human road,
Scowling he answered, "I am he
Who champions total liberity-
Intolerance being, ma'am a state
No tolerant man can tolerate."
"When I meet rouges," he cried, "who choose
To cherish oppositional views,
Lady, like this, and in this manner,
I lay about my with my banner
'Till they cry mercy, ma'am, " His blows
Rained proudly on perspective foes.
Fearful I turned and left him there
Still muttering as he thrashed the air,
"Let the Intolerant beware!"
-Phyllis McGinley
Poetry Lives!
McDougal, Littell &Company
1976
