travel & affect on others

A great excerpt from an independent publisher. I share some of the same ideas about why I feel compelled to make paintings as well as relate some of his thoughts about extension of space and time into the subject matter of my paintings.

Sean Wolf Hill, Time Worm & Counter Culture
All people crave the experience of extension into space. That is why people travel, send letters, write stories, and watch TV or listen to radio. The modern world has given us ways to experience the extension into space, ways tat are more accessible (maybe) than the older routes of meditation, mimetic ritualization, trance induction, hallucination, vision quests and so on. All of these things, including recording and photography & painting, are also mostly extensions into time. Space has become obsolete. That is why I publish. When I send a magazine off, or send my writing, to someone “somewhere else” that person who receives it allows me to re-emerge thru them, to experience the same space they are filling. If this engagement is strong enough, I may also come to life thru them. When this happens, they become my channeller; they carry my life energy into their world. I send to them a seed of myself, product of my vision, sweat, hand-eye coordination and then it germinates in their body or mind and I arise within the. That’s why I publish. Not to push thoughts, although thoughts are surely pushed. Not to make money, which never happens anyway. Not to become known or important, though to some I may be. I publish because of the thrill that happens when someone write back to me and I sense in their letter that I passed through them when the read Time Worm or Counter Culture or other of my books… thru them and out of them, breathed their breath for a while, felt their sensation, shared in their sorrows or good fortune. Mingled with them in a fuller way than if I didn’t publish. I publish for this sensation of in habiting a shared earth where distance in space and time is no obstacle, where there is no wall, no closed system that restricts my travel.