"Our ideas about property and theft depend on a set of assumptions about how the world is divided up”, Lewis Hyde says. The way it is hoisted, hung, halved, and drained. Every vital thing removed. The way it is sectioned off and carved apart. Packaged in plastic. Tagged with parallel lines. Machine readable data. A representation of a life put out for sale.
Fibers twisted into filaments, made into a mother thread. Your life. Your days. Measured and given length. Tailored and trimmed. Unalterable. Inflexible. Bespoke. And, there’s nothing you can do. No other way for things to be. All of your best intentions turn to vanity, to naivety, a grasping at the wind...
