Shree: Loosing and Space

 

Shree: On loosing

In today’s times we fear losing things. The fear, as an imagination, has been eternal and perhaps people have expressed ways of dealing with this fear. Life is temporary and this feel is also a state of the mind, its nature, connections, behaviour, relations, and its dilemma or questions of whether am I alone or separated or together or what is this business of existence?! The awareness to feel such things and the search for becoming the truth is the inevitable inquiry of being human – as a potential. It is a deep rooted fear - let me make no qualms about it and let me k=not even simplify it. 

But the point is we desperately seek answers through tools of imagination that come from separation or temporariness itself! So how can the answer or synthesis happen from the tool of incompleteness? Once this inquiry is digested (and it takes some time to digest this – maybe some lives) the running stemming from fear mellows down. The running or any other response through fear does not dilute the fear – it reinforces it or continues it. Fear is intent, in other words. 

But if intent can suggest so much, then what should be the “intent” of living? 

Loosing happens If we identify with things, which have a habit of becoming and going or changing. The faster the pace of change or movement, faster is the feel of loss or loss of memory or loss of doing things or loss of a pattern. This can be altered, if subtleness is known or if identification with movement does not happen. Who am I is a question of identity/ awareness/ memory/ being. I am God, nothing less.

Hari Om.

 

 Shree: On Space

I am space and so are others. Space is experience, culture, pattern, relationship, connection, action, imagination, doing, physical, subtle and so many things. Since “experience” itself happens in space, everyone has some idea or a say of space. That makes space intrinsic, fundamental and universal. So the key of architectural discipline is to get people to engage, collaborate, and talk of space and act on space. The difficulty is since we are made of space itself – how can the experience be pulled out, objectified, debated, compared, evaluated, spoken about, tried out, and expressed? There is not one language to do it – but that becomes the beauty of engaging with all forms of spaces and then realizing the depth of what space means. 

This becomes the agenda for dealing with naac. Since the field is highly creative, subjective, speculative, critical, the manner of engagement and action and documentation should allow all such processes to express themselves. How can documentation allow such a range of diversity to come together? The answer is in defining the idea of ‘focus’. Many things put together do not make a story at all – rather it may lead to confusion. But a strong focus can accommodate diversity. 

Hari Om.