this pages leads you through two experiments.
imagine it is a day of work on this
construction site
38 new buildings have slowly been sprouting in series of about 4 to 8 at a time, since 2017.
experiment no 1
imagine you are very skinny. most of the world comes to you through touch. when there is sound, it invades you like it does for anybody else, but you are wired in such a way that your being overstimulates faster than most others. sound then can be ecstatically beautiful or a painfully scary and destructive scenario.
imagine that noise trauma has fragmented your internal silence in small pockets and that these pockets are constantly poked by the outside world. in this configuration, sometimes your body-mind becomes the sound you hear. your mind becomes extremely vulnerable. you might dissociate. your physiology changes. you get diarrhea. your tinnitus goes louder and splits in new pieces. your brain gets hot. you can't eat anymore because the tastes are amplified by 100 or 1000 and this is too much stimulation. your legs and arms loose strength because your nervous system can't take it anymore.
then, do not change place or posture and breathe through the information you have received. breathe through your embodiment of it.
then, shift back into your own body-mind of now. just as it is at this moment. your body, your habits, your day. and, in your imagination, bring this body to live near the construction site. one year, two, three, four, etc.
what happens?
noise trauma?
what do you do?
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| digital postcard sent on july 26, 2024 to the head of social cohesion in the municipality where i live at the moment and to a top manager of the problematic construction site, who has agreed to consider common sense ideas to absorb some of the noise produced at night |
experiment no 2
now, we imagine a world where land is not owned but shared and cared for. we imagine we learn from Indigenous communities to do this with respect and gentleness towards each other and towards the land. what happens?