sweet home globalchicago
chris corrigan posted recently a bit about bucky fuller and marshall mcluhan, specifically their urging us to look at the world as one place rather than a sea of sovereign parts. i recognize this as what i’ve been working on since 9/11, or perhaps even earlier — learning to pay attention to worldwide movements, get business done through emails and occasional international travel, and still stay connected to who and what is most important at home in chicago.
today i am working on major updating of my database for the first time in a year (way overdue, of course), adding people who i’ve met or who have contacted me through my website from countries all over the world. here are the ones i can remember off the top of my head…
australia, brazil, china, czech republic, columbia, canada, england, germany, india, israel, ireland, korea, malaysia, nepal, portugal, peru, philippines, palestine, singapore, switzerland, scotland, sweden, south africa, taiwan, the united states …and chicagoland.i am enjoying the stretching to embrace and also the resting down into this big wide base — one world, one database, one hometown, one homepage — global chicago network. noticing now that my work on all of this really did begin years before 9/11, which is it’s own satisfaction and stretching.
stretching, moving, rolling it around, pulsing back and forth. where is your world? where is your home? …and what happens to “you” when they touch?