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Pregnant and Unbalanced
14 July 2012
It is the day of her 34th birthday. 7 weeks pregnant with her daughter. Sitting at the memorial service for a friend. Pulled between tides of arriving and leaving, birth and mortality. Let down. Fucked off. Carrying the most amazing gift possible inside her. A mess of hormones and emotions. Aware that when this time for shared remembering and acknowledging grief is complete, she has to run to the kitchen and put the meat pies in the oven and the coffee in the plunger for the afternoon tea.
Mist translations. Mis-translations. Missed-translations. These circular processes. The ideas move around and around and around. They chase their tales. Each time the story becomes different. I am thinking of a water wheel, the drenching circles create energy to power things. The process of translation between languages, forms, disciplines, spaces and people might be understood as energizing our cultures and cities and languages, in a tumbling of movement and memory.
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