Narrative, episodes, blogs, short stories, poems, collage... how to gather a life fractured - to form a whole - what glue to use? To gather the shards, to restore meaning to what has been neglected, and to give meaning to what has been ignored or derided.
The glue of Nin's collages is the "I" who percieves, reflects, interacts with others, dreams, interprets her experience, and finally expresses what she has experienced.
Sharon Spencer on Anais Nin
"I allowed myself to live out a mood and see what it would construct. Once the mood is accepted, the mood makes the selection, the mood will give fragments a unity, the mood will be the catalyser. And so, this book, which should have been a novel or another book of short stories, became something else, a collage"
Anais Nin on Collages
"Our lives are a dense network of perpetually reconstituted connections between impressions, feelings, meaning, words - we create ourselves humpty-dumpty like from frgaments - never simple, always complex, contradictory, like Baudelaires Consequences and leonardo's universe, where he saw actual lines of geometry connecting objects."
Proust
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