March 12, 2005
rhizomes you ask?
Creating a public space can be fun and intimidating. While trying to decide what to call my new space, I found that that was easy; Atabey, the Taino earth goddess and first female tribal chief; is a part of who I am. The second word, well that’s temperance…also a part of the woman that I have become. And the word rhizome…is the best part of me.
I shoot up from the ground as I mature in my humanity, but my roots are eclectic and scattered, like pollinated seeds using the wind as a transport while seeking shelter; not meant to fit into any one category or space…and most urgently, not wanting to. I am a rhizome, like so many others, seeking shelter but not categorization.
Bienvenidos, fellow rhizomes...others, who like me, appear on the surface to be linear; embracing the complexity that thrives beneath the surface like rampant weeds.
Allow this space to be one of your shelters...
Posted by dvaldesd at March 12, 2005 12:57 PM