Is Cecilia Vicuna a
Vicuna says
“perhaps
The myth for us
is language
just plain words and
and then words
as I percieve them
they are time”
“simply
time”
but I say…. time is not simple… neither is language
Vicuna continues…
“and sound
written
and sound
breathing
and there’s an ancient tradition that says that the voice
is the
bridge
that through the
How do you visualize sound? Sound can only be heard….
Vicuna continues….
“we cross dimensions
(the multi dimensional bridge)
because the universe has been created by sound
this is a common idea in ancient india
and in the ancient andes
(our ancient world, a similar idea in separate regions of the world)
so we create
by sound
and the word that we use now
SOUND
sonído en español
originally
in this proto-european language
which is the mother language which we speak in English
it was swen
and swen means Shunt
an incantation
so even in indo-european languages sound
was incantation“
This immediately reminds me of when I was studying to become a social studies teacher. I took a class called cultural geography and I learned the history of language:
The myth becomes visualized… we see the family tree, how English is connected to Spanish… though they sound different in many ways they are part of the same bough of the same tree…
Incantation… magical sounds strung together to create magical words! The words we speak have magic… they can order pyramids to be built and they can order walls to be torn down… We can make people love us, or we can make them hate us… Words can fling us into a rage or they can sooth and comfort us…
Perhaps we do not need the traditional magic of witchcraft and wizardry… the magic we have been seeking has been in front of us the whole time. Right under our very noses really… coming from our
Note: I am not claiming any of the pictures as my own. Google aided me in my quest to create this visualization.
It’s an interesting approach you’ve taken. You might not have picked up the fact that CV is also a visual artist, actually studied painting. I’ll bring in a book to share with you today.