My interest in ritual comes as a result of my work and thought around materiality, physicality and immediacy.
Broadly, what interests me is the virtualisation of objects through symbols and signs to the scope of paradoxically returning them closer to their materiality and enabling them to access the body in a very immediate way.
‘symbols in ritual become ‘polysemic’ […] the signifier itself has become more present, not only through its iterations but also by distancing itself from the ubiquitous and nonlocalized symbolic system of everyday language.’ (Music and the Myth of Wholeness, p. 78)
Natural Symbols
Gaston Bachelard’s theory of four poetic temperaments:
On the affinity of the poet
K. Morawska
The Karkonosze State University of Applied Sciences, 18, ul. Lwówecka, Jelenia Góra, 58-503, Poland
water – the blood of the earth
Bells and whistles