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title: I lost my training of thought authors: Adva Zakai, Femke Snelting & Isabella Aurora summary: Adva, Femke and Isabella perform loops over multiple modes of training. Their spell moves through drawings, texts and hyperlinks to ask: how to be responsible with that which disappears without a trace? If yes: allow magic to emerge. license: fal hide_inserted_links: true <h1>I lost my training<br>of thought</h1> <div class="loop"> <p>How to train a tree?</p> </div> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/01.jpg"> <div class="loop"> <p>Wake up early, together with the sun.</p> <p>Imagine you see the world from a bird's eye.</p> <p>From this perspective, nothing will be overlooked. </p> <p>Detect any undisciplined trees.</p> <p>Tie their branches horizontally to something…</p> <p>and remember to lower your head in front of nature and humbly thank it.</p> </div> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/02.jpg"> <div class="loop"> <p> <span id="overlooked">Overlooked? → Yes → <a href="#what">Ask what</span></a> </p> <p> ↓ </p> <p> No </p> <p> ↓ </p> <p><a href="#bird">Ask how</span></a></p> </div> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/03.jpg"> <div class="loop"> <p>to include</p> </div> <div class="loop"> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/04.jpg"> </div> <p><a href="#disappear"><span id="emerge">the imperceptible</span>,</a></p> <p>the unresponsive,</p> <p>the too slow, the too fast,</p> <p>dormant, latent, dead, inorganic,</p> <p>nonagential, nonthings.</p> <div class="loop"> <img class="scale" src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/05.jpg"> </div> <div class="loop"> <p>How to be responsible to that which disappears without a trace?</p> </div> <p>track a tree</p> <p>train a trace to dissapear</p> <p>trace that which disappears</p> <p>trace that witch</p> <div class="loop"> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/06.jpg"> </div> <p>which witch</p> <p>spelling what</p> <p>which spell to train</p> <div class="loop"> <p>To cast a spell and to spell a word are actually the same thing. A spell is the bringing together of elements that don't have agency on their own, but when put in relation, magic happens. Spelling a word is the same as making magic. Separate letters interact, and meaning emerges.</p> </div> <div class="loop"> <p><a href="#calibrate"><span id="uncalibrate">Start</span></a>.</p> </div> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/07.jpg"> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/08.jpg"> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/09.jpg"> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/10.jpg"> <div class="loop"> <p>We are all witches.</p> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/11.jpg"> </div> <div class="loop"> <p>Relax before continuing the training.</p> </div> <div class="loop"> <p><span id="bird">How to relate</span></p> <p>to write</p> <p>to sense</p> <p>that which is beyond me?</p> </div> <img class="scale" src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/12.jpg"> <div class="loop"> <p>Is the fear of death stronger than the desire to touch? → No → Keep your hands to yourself.</p> <p>↓</p> <p>Yes</p> <p>↓</p> <p><a href="#uncalibrate"><span id="calibrate">freeze</span></a> training.</p> </div> <div class="loop"> <p>The <a href="#emerge"><span id="disappear">emergence</span></a> of a spell.</p> </div> <img class="scale" src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/13.jpg"> <img class="scale" src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/14.jpg"> <div class="loop"> <p>How</p> </div> <div class="loop"> <p>to</p> </div> <div class="loop"> <p>take</p> </div> <div class="loop"> <p>sides</p> </div> <div class="loop"> <p>without</p> </div> <div class="loop"> <p>relation?</p> </div> <div class="loop"> <img src="i-lost-my-training-of-thought-media/15.jpg"> </div> <div class="loop"> <p>What <span id="what"><a href="#overlooked">overlooked</span></a>, non-participative, untimely lifeworlds are apart from me, but also a part of me?</p> </div> <div class="footer"> Words: Adva Zakai, Femke Snelting<br/> Reading: Kathryn Yusoff, <em>Insensible Worlds: Postrelational Ethics, Indeterminacy and the (k)Nots of Relating</em>.<br/> Drawings: Isabella Aurora<br/> Picture: Arboretum, Domein Bokrijk (Genk) </div> <style> .loop {margin: 2em 0 2em 0;} img {width: 80%;} .scale {width: 60%} .small {margin-left: 40%;} .footer {font-size: 0.75em; margin-top: 40em;} </style>