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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Becoming (Un)Productive: Grieving Death, Reclaiming Life

Thoughts of Sorts

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25071/2563-3694.67
Submitted
August 31, 2020
Published
2021-07-26

Abstract

My multi-media daily practice of dancing, drawing, and writing is a generative space that does not buy into the idea and pressure of productivity. It has been over four years since I started this daily practice, which I began on June 21, 2017. I engage this practice to process. It is a practice for processing “things” such as texts, theories, daily situations, and our current time, informed by sensations and feelings. What has emergedfor me in this practice is how every aspect of it — the dancing, drawing, writing, music, silence, camera, space, time, cats (yes! my cats sometimes dance with me), and life — plays a role. All of these things are in conversation with one another, and they inform who I am,my becoming.Lately, I have engaged this practiceas a methodology. That is,I have used it to excavate and re-connect with the Chilean national dance, a danceform that I used to practice when I was a child in Chile. However, for me, this practice is much more thanthat. These writing and drawings are from me, about me, and extensions of me — my thoughts of sorts.* And,they are my gifts to you.