‘spiral woman’ louise bourgeois

‘the spiral is an attempt at controlling the chaos,’ Bourgeois said. this abstracted form encompassed a range of emotions for the artist over the course of her career, among them fear, tension, and anger, as well as hope and well-being. sometimes the abstracted spiral is combined with figuration. bourgeois often stressed this configuration’s opposing directions: outward movement represented ‘giving … trust and positive energy,’ while winding inward embodied a ‘tightening’ and ‘retreating'.’

‘to hide’ louise bourgeois

the radiance of space permeates the body and all directions simultaneously. space is always here. already here before your noticing of it.

what we call space is a presence, permission to exist, and worlds within which to express.

without thinking about it, without forming mental images, rest in the vast expanse, friends with infinity.

-the radiance sutras-lorin roche-

why are you so afraid of silence, silence is the root of everything. if you spiral into its void, a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

-rumi-

you, darkness, of whom I am born -

i love you more than the flame

that limits the world

to the circle it illumines

and excludes all the rest.

but the dark embraces everything:

shapes and shadows, creatures and me,

people, nations - just as they are.

it lets me imagine

a great presence stirring beside me.

i believe in the night.

-rainer maria rilke-