Shree: Movement and belonging.

 

 

Shree: Movement and belonging.

 

Movement and experience of feelings (or its creations and its connections) happen by our senses and physical movement in space and time. This movement on foot is essential. We have speed, touch, smell, taste, air, body – all rolled as mechanisms to create perception of architecture.

Such perceptions over a period of time perhaps condense to create values of environment that are expressed as ideas and through activities undertaken by people and the architecture that gets formed by it. Hence architecture is a response to many things – handed down by generations, role of memory in our lives, concerns of environment and the need to connect and anchor – all these become very important I guess. Yet this is not a formula wherein humanity was engaged with.

Belongingness or a sense of connect is a very deep rooted notion that has also undergone change in its character but the need itself will never go away. This belongingness has been expressed in many ways across times and scales and across generations and across depth of the mind. Perhaps the understanding of humanity may be said to be how this sense of “belongingness” got expressed in our environment.

The need to belong stems from the need to connect and become calm and also the need to counter some deep fear. This issue is so subtle and deep that we have remained in this exercise of expressing these deep vibrations since the beginning and if that is the case, we may look at such fundamental triggers of expressions that imply a connect of some kind. Such deep feelings are even beyond the horizon of the intellect but which inform the behavior of intellect. Therefore intellect by itself becomes quite useless if the triggers of its making are not acknowledged.

Everyone does this. The fight we encounter and the abuses that are hurled are also from this need of connecting, although some approaches are preferred over others since it results in the welfare of life.

To go deep down requires time and more than time, it requires vibrations to be seen and observed till they become steady. Is there a single way to do this? May be no. But we need to keep trying.

 

Hari Om.