Seed 007: The end of the year and a Beginning

Seed 007

The year comes to an end. It never feels like an end; it always feels like a beginning. At least we have a marker to leave the nasty 2021 stuff behind.

Tonight I begin again - I will be reading or writing at midnight.

Marcus Baumgart 19/12/21 Marcus Baumgart 19/12/21

Seed 06 Assumptions

Seed 006 Assumptions

Assumptions are problematic when attempting to manage (and eliminate the effects of) uncertainty.

They are often silent, invisible and embedded in the recent or distant past. By this I mean that they get made unconsciously sometimes, coming without being noted or noticed.

This is not a problem if your aim is to embrace or work within uncertainty. Assumptions may or may not appear in the process, but the implications of them are minimised.

It matters less…

They can be patently false, fanciful and erroneous, and still play a positive role in creative production.

Marcus Baumgart 15/12/21 Marcus Baumgart 15/12/21

Seed 005 A day spent writing

005 A day spent writing

A flat, pewter sky over Docklands. A blessed day without meetings, my task today is to write a detailed description of a complex planning process. I would rather muse about the weather, but writing is writing and I am grateful I earn a living this way.

Marcus Baumgart 13/12/21 Marcus Baumgart 13/12/21

Seed 004 Moving with the sky

004 Pensive Sky

The sky over the Docklands is constantly shifting. I love it. I adore it. I want to match my state of mind to the clouds, if only I could move in sync with the sky.

Instead I blow here and there, leaping and stuttering in time to emails and phone calls. All day this happens as I have not yet taken the lessons of my daily meditation off the cushion. Two years of practice and so far to go. I am not in a rush.

Marcus Baumgart 10/12/21 Marcus Baumgart 10/12/21

Seed 003

003 To create change: to be in and of the world. To be immersed.

Psyche: writing, conceptual - anything

Mundi: architecture, physical - anything

The oscillation of desire. To taste it on the tongue.

Marcus Baumgart 10/12/21 Marcus Baumgart 10/12/21

Seeds 001-002

002 A desire to be up to your elbows in the stuff of the world. Subject matter immersion: a failure of reality. Paradox: architecture actually makes change in the world, but the canvas is tiny and constrained.

001 Alternative vocations: curator, historian. Too constrained. A failure of reality in the face of intention and imagination. Desire to immerse oneself in the stuff of fascinating things: instead, the bureaucracy of museology. The desire to be a curator.