I’ve been traveling for many years, always ready to inhabit different spaces and conditions, sometimes extreme, sometimes magical.
For me, living has a certain spiritual nomadism and soulful nomadism, that passes from the anus to the mouth;
poetics moves between primordial nature and celestial discipline, between mind and viscera.
I believe in improvisation as a tool for authenticity, enter the moment, synchronous and awake.
I believe in a sensitive training that breaks down masks and makes us aware of wearing them.
Presence and absence in equal measure are poetic and inhabiting concepts; we can be there or disappear, we can be part of the decor or burst into the center of ourselves and of space;
…what moves us makes the difference.
Moving within the subject-object dichotomy without losing the poetry.
Even fear and vulnerability offer inspiration for poetic reflection on inhabit.
We are not certain; we are always whole; sometimes we fragment, and this is necessary to the evolutionary process.
Place is metamorphic, as are our emotions and moods.
The sensual state is not limited to the subtle; it sometimes opens to an organic carnality, “the ephemeral matter is dancing”.
Even the aesthetics of living take on a changing, multispecies value.
Who lives within me today and what part of me wants to sing?
We must accept the multitude that inhabits us, our inner community, to rediscover the essence of the living space we occupy.
For me, inhabit is a factor of biodiversity, surreal but also simple, everyday, where any gesture reveals its true energetic nature,
between wild and ethereal.
Doing something new every day.
Making the small into the great.
Space is sacred.
And sacred is connected.

Dara Siligato
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