My need to unravel what is in front of me has been a part of who I am since early childhood, when I understood very little about the difficult events in my life. At times I wish I had no need to interrogate each and every experience, but there is no denying my nature. I cannot help but think and counter hurtful passion. My instinct is to understand, my efforts, to create accessible, poetic, works of art.
It is my life’s adventure that I try my best to bridge the void between one world and another.
I listen to the quiet sounds we make. Those that otherwise are filtered from my focus or distraction:
The sound of breath, of tendon stretch,
Of touch as cloth on skin shifts softly as the voice of body beats.
Within this place of multifarious delight,
With thought and spirit calm in readiness for life, with love ignite.
As figures pass and feelings swell like waves upon the shore...
Much of art tries in vein to express sensory experience. The qualities of life we feel appear so simply, and yet the moment I attempt to capture even the most straight forward of my collisions with the world, like walking in the sand, I loose all but a glimpse of the subtlety and strength of my encounter. As I walk I not only feel the soft warmth of countless grains, but you with me.
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William Shakespeare
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Think This Today is the creation of Mike de Sousa, an artist, writer, and composer.