Space is a Doubt

                                                                               R Allen-Sherwood 2015

I would like there to exist places that are stable. unmoving. intangible, untouched and almost untouchable, unchanging, deep-rooted, places that might be points of reference, of departure, of origin.

Such places don't exist, and it's because they don't exist that space becomes a question, ceases to be self-evident, ceases to be incorporated. ceases to be appropriated. Space is a doubt. I have constantly to mark it, to designate it. It's never mine, never given to me. I have to conquer it.

                                                                                      R. Allen-Sherwood 2015

Space melts like sand running through one's fingers. Times bears it away and leaves only shapeless threads.

"Species of Spaces and Other Pieces"  Georges Perec