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Intertwine
verb
1. twist or twine together
2. connect or link (two or more things) closely.
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Intertwine, movement, and connections were the words I thought of when I heard the text "Thing-Power I" (Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter : A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.) I was drawing what I was thinking of when I heard the text together on many papers on our table.
Intertwine, movement, and connection. 5 objects come together, taking different paths to meet at one place. The storm drain is their meeting point. This place intertwines the objects, assembling them together. A black plastic glove, oak pollen, a dead rat, a plastic bottle cap, and a stick of wood. All have different paths that lead them to the same place. In this place they make you see them from a different perspective with different emotions or feelings "speaking to you". The assemblage of random objects made an impression on you, they were possibly more noticeable than if you would see them one by one. The power of the things is intertwined with each other by the movement they all have had on their journey. They all live on in a new assemblage, different from where they started. Some of these things will live on for a long time without much more change than location. They will lay as trash on the ground polluting our environment. Some have reached the end of their lifespan or are given the possibility of helping new life. A black plastic glove, oak pollen, a dead rat, a plastic bottle cap, and a stick of wood, made it possible to see them differently by coming together at the storm drain.
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