I asked: What is your experience with or how would you define freedom?
You looked back with cautiously expressionless eyes.
This is where I engage movement and it articulates and defines me. This is where I achieve validity with constant motion, constant, and it's my only understanding of being free. It's an abstraction that I glimpse when moving, the abstract movement of contrasts, the gentle rub of resistance that is hot and comforting.
You are extensive like light or gravity, a massive incontrovertible force. Substantial. Fluid. Moving.
Freedom is just more capitalism.
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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow.
- T.S. Eliot
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The site:
View from the window:
What's left of Mo State Hospital retains some fascinating details: limestone columns, limestone dentil molding, capitals with melting eagles, rotunda roof (painted, that's not copper patina), massive terra cotta rosettes. The original arched windows are missing. They've been replaced and a concrete lentil rests above each window. Arched windows still remain in the rotunda roof.
I estimate the superb limestone capitals on the front of the building to be 5 feet in height.
