shekhar kapur

shekhar kapur bw

We are the stories we tell ourselves

2:15 – the power of visual story, of dancing, of music, the power of not knowing

everyday we prepare too much, we think too much, knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience

so i come up and i say, what am i going to do today, i’m not going to do what i planned to do, and i put myself into absolute panic, it’s my one way of getting rid of my mind….getting rid of this mind that says, hey you know what you’re doing, you know exactly what you’re doing… i’ve got to get there and be in complete panic.

it’s a symbolic gesture, i panic myself,.. i get scared, i’m doing it right now, you can watch me, i’m getting nervous, i don’t know what i’m saying, i don’t know where to go…

i’m allowing myself to go into chaos, because out of chaos i’m hoping some moments of truth will come… the truth of it all – comes on the moment, organically

1. panic – get rid of your mind – great access to creativity

age 7 – at school i was told – if something exists it is measurable, if it’s not measurable, it does not exist

please measure forever

harmony is not resolution, harmony (infinite) is a suggestion of thing that is much larger than a resolution (finite)

from comments:

Perhaps “panic” is the wrong word—he is speaking of the state in which all, or at least most, of your expectations and preconceptions have been set aside, where exploration, inventiveness and creativity exist. The anchors of expectation and preconception can be helpful in execution, but they’re detrimental to creation. In the moment when those anchors don’t exist, even if only for a moment, you are completely adrift until you find the anchors. Some people would call that state “panic”.