"You return to that earlier time armed with the present and no matter how dark that world was, you do not leave it unlit. You take your adult self with you. It's not to be a reliving but a rewitnessing."
- from Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Ondaatje wrote, "the lost sequence in life, they say, is the thing we always search out." He felt we need to deal with the layered grief of the world as well as pleasure.
In what ways does the past inform the present?
Do you wish to remove the ink of the past that blends with you?
What learning process moves beyond the should, would or could haves?
Explore incidents you need to repeat in story mode.
Find a way to replace situations. Where will you reweave threads or cut strings?
Choose a narrator to reveal possibilities not considered.
Explore ways to place the past into the present to rewitness.
Use your imagination to find the light.
No comments:
Post a Comment