From the atelier, I set off and wander, exploring culture, reality, and humanity, – through the digital lens. These are the field notes, recording the journey through fleeting moments of words & images.
Is there such a thing as digital tsundoku? Does tsundoku apply to thoughts that linger but aren’t addressed? Do you know what I mean?
As a writer, I have new thoughts arriving constantly on my ‘I have to think about this’ list…
And that ‘tsundoku’ pile can be found in lists on my notebook pages and in the back of my mind…
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling
The image: Fumatore by David Teniers – a 17th-century painting.
Teniers’ smoker sits in his quiet, shadowy corner, utterly surrendered to the effects of the slow burn of his pipe. But the deepest, most mind-altering dosage doesn’t come from dried leaves—it comes from words—thought, said, read, written, or heard.
Everything begins with words…
A few words, a single, devastating sentence, can shift your entire reality. That is reality.
That ‘adage’ inspired this board on The Gastronaut.
My nooks on Pinterest are two—@ateliersosanniv and @creatingalook.