CARMEN 01:
CARMEN 01:
PETALS OF BALANCE
PETALS OF BALANCE
We tend to overrate the obvious.
We think understanding comes from clarity: is harmony symmetrical, assignable, or compliant? Curiously, what is most visible is often most misleading — the categorisable, the observable, the classifiable, the neat and conceptual.
The essence, by nature, is oblique. It does not declare itself, all dressed up in virtue and silks for the occasion. It alludes, it hints, it gestures. It seeps, staining the edge of the frame. What matters rarely enters through the front door. It lingers in margins.
The visible blinds. The coherent deceives. The complete excludes.
Petals of Balance refuses all three. It dwells in this ambiguity. It examines the marginal, the superfluous, the discarded.
It is a seduction by omission. A blossom is never fully whole. It is the temporary truce of competing tensions: softness, gravity, thirst, light, colour, bliss. The petal does not belong to the flower; it interrupts. And yet, that interruption is precisely what gives the flower its perceptibility.
Shall harmony emerge from structure? Quite often, it is born out of a blemished fissure. Things are recognized not by their unity but by the anomalies that demolish it. That is a rare equilibrium born out of collision. Because sometimes, to perceive the whole, one must recognize that a single petal already carries the entire flower.
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