Full circle wildetect style

 Haven't really posted anything on this blog this year - not that i haven't been really super busy - its just Ive been busy saying it in other arenas of my life. introspective reflective is a thing,  i think, the thought of  the mouth whispering in the darkness and wondering if the ear is listening. i have seen many rather eccentric people speaking to themselves on the roads - whether i am present or not doesn't stop them from having intense conversations to the ghosts of their past. they don't need my or any one elses ear - they need to simply get whats in their head,  past their mouth,  to empty out the crowded space within. that's exactly like how i see my blog, for me really,  not for the odd person who might stumble on whats written.

to conceptualize a futuristic creative idea is the unicorn of thought to my mind - ones focus blurred as you look through the ether and the limited telescopic lens. is it so important to imagine a future artistic aesthetic - not like a sage looks into the future but from a,  "what will artistic expression be like  in the future or what will our building aesthetic move towards"  - i used to think this was very important and it surely is on some level,  however i see now being present in the moment,  is far more powerful.

Architecture is sculpture and to my mind the more dramatic the perceived movement in the sculpture,  the more visually appealing the static,  perceived kinetic architecture (wildetect PKA) this concept has long been an experimented wildetect ideal for me. to go full circle on any journey is always an interesting trip, sometimes it can be a very, very sad one.

A friend of mine, who used to capture hunting moments for men with very big guns and very small brains and even smaller unmentionables.  told me a very sad story once. the kind of African tale one hears far, far to often. Africa's highways and byways are full of ancient wisdom, some of this wisdom is sadly not learnt by the participants in the tales told.

many years back on his very last such filming contract,  he filmed a crew of foreign hunters who where trying to  hunt a magnificent bull elephant,  in a remote part of the African wilderness. the type of little men, who feed the complete lie that one takes on the spirit energy of what one kills. youve all seen the photos of them ghoulishly smirking over the lifeless remains of their latest bloody conquest. wanting so desparately for you to now believe they are a lion or a mighty elephant or a rare panther.

This bull elephant , a magnificent creature led them for several days through the deepest African terrain. always out witting, out smarting and out playing the  tiny single minded ambitions of the pursuing gaggle of less than men.  Then rather suddenly , at some point during the long exhausting chase , this magnificent creature, determined as it was,  just started heading to the exact spot that they first encountered him. he had led them full circle for many,many miles and days - this wise, now very tired of being chased, old african creature might have realized in this simple statement ,  that he was making,  that he had chosen to take a stand where he first encountered this determined threat. he realised he had no other option from this virulent cancer on his six. these minuscule minded, frothing merciless trophey hunters, sadly didn't feel a reprieve might have been in order for this intelligent gesture. they used their off shelf, mighty little weapons on a less than human endeavor and blasted the creature to kingdom come. as this incredible creature vacated all its systems due to absolute fear of earths immediate future,  from imbecilic man, who sadly it appears is now, it seems in full control. my friend silently put down his camera and walked away, this was not chivelry, bravery,  this was small minded blood lust. he decided to partake no longer in such a display of false unintelligent merciless bravado.

my point is that full circle is something nature is aware of and needs to be explored more by those amongst us who deeply care. and when one finds full circle moments within oneself - its a good thing at that point to stop and smell the roses. sadly for this magnificent elephant,  his magnificent journey ended in a very remote part of the world, but the shadow he cast and the lesson he gave,  can live on for those sensitive few amongst us - yes, you know who you are.

trying to catch a synaptic thought into the realm of architectural reality through sculptural inference is a challenge. sculptural architectural design taking into account perceived kinetic architectural ideals  - looking to build this architectural creation at some point. a part of the cresting wave moves back to take care of an incredible view of nature. but solitude and privacy within the space is also an important view - a view into oneself,  from which you can awaken, full circle.

so ear,  have you been listening to what my mouth just whispered?

haircut adventure

 Well do i have a story to tell.

😳 

So needing an urgent haircut monday, I do my usual pilgimage into the deep morass of morrocan, Albanian, Algerian and eastern block men's hairdressers that are now popping up all over Cape Town. 

These Arabic speaking Edward scissor hands can wield a blade with the expertise of a skywalker jedi ninja. They also have no problem squeezing, wiping, picking, dabbing anything on your person that looks remotely krappable, squeezable or pickable.

At first its a little surprising when the hairdresser suddenly without warning turns into pim pimple popper mode, then triumphantly wipes your extracted person on the back of his hand. With a stamp of the foot, clip of the heals and a sound , i can only describe as an,  "ole." The first time it happened to me,  I felt it was theft but I'm now immune to the scrutiny of these master buttlers in the arts of mens care. 

I can only imagine if they tried that stunt on a woman!!! It's no wonder certain cultures cover themselves from head to toe. These guys who are so passionate about there trade, must find it difficult to sit back when there's a ripe ol plumb at the end of a nose,  rich for the slaughter.

But even this last trip into Zekrappables lair, on main road muizenberg,  left me completely and utterly surprised. 

As I walk in, my assigned hair specialist is lounging on  to me, what  looked like a bazantyme couch. The music Is a soft eastern type vibe.  and the men's hair products are nothing I recognize or have ever seen before.   

I sit on what I can only describe as an old school barbers chair. And expertly dropped over me, a black silk type sheet with a very boho beatnik bohemian bearded decal on the front.

The feeling of Hippy safe creeps over me, in an eastern type setting. 

As I sat, I noticed the music, not unlike a snake Chalmers beat, changed ever so slightly. 

The haircutting dance had now started. I was ready to look good and to salsa.  

Even The entire earth smelling hand, held over my nose, to steady my head, was new. But that was tame for what was to come.

Because there was something on my person that had Been growing for 52 years without threat or fear. This was all about to dramatically change. 

The cutting was spectacular, like a bull fighter with a red flag, this gentlemen trained in the fine arts of hair cutting,  magically danced his dance.  I was impressed, I thought a R10 tip was now on offer. As high as i go on a R60 haircut. 

Then suddenly the music changed, the chair seemingly  transformed into something i can only describe as medieval sorcerory. I was tilted back and I fearfully thought he had just spotted hair on my teeth. 

My hair specialist, who was speaking to another hair specialist,  behind a curtain in a language I could not understand. Then Gently tilted my head back by my nose and wildly exclaimed in an authoritarian tone. "HEIR" , yes you read right, I thought I was about to inherit Sinbads gold treasure.

Well out of the corner of my eye, my specialist had darted off and was now doing a dance with an earbud. A steaming earbud that looked like it was candy floss and spider web encrusted over hot steaming brown lava. 

He ran back to my arched back body and manuevred that piping hot earbud so far up my left nostril, I thought my eye was about to pop out. He then wiggled the hot goo around where only a gentle finger had ever been before and pinched my nose and held it. Glaring at me like a mother hen about to pull rotten teeth from the village hobos mouth. 

I had absolutely no idea what the hell was going on, I was also to scared to protest. I had just seen my hair specialist slice a hair from my head , with a blade so sharp it made an origami elephant. 

We sat staring at each other, me blinking and him tut tutting consolingly as he held my nose with fingers as strong as anaconda steel. 

The music was reaching its crescendo, the zennith of the eastern songs Mozart cannons moment. 

At an exact prescribed point in the music, the specialst ripped out the bud with such force my head jolted forward like a car crash victim. My eyes streaming with tears of pain. He then shows me proudly, the "HEIR". He then shows it behind the curtain to an exclaimed voice, that sounded like Ahab had just seen the white whale and then he indignantly throws it all into the dust bin like salt bae. 

At this point he starts to pick my nose vigorously of all its remnants of wax, hair, brain and snot that had not gone with the bud. The tears are now streaming down my face. All i thought was , the voice, the voice dont sob you big little blimmen baby.

I was now starting to realise what every human knows as a simple real fact. 

Good mother of pearl , i have another bloody nostril to get molested.  😳

Well he had already run off for another steaming hot bud and a load me up full with the vile smelling steaming hot wax concoction. 

Fortunately the second time I was braced for the entire brutal manly man experience. 

In all fairness he did kindly show me my 52 years worth of nostril hair. He also dutifully showed the behind the curtain man and then he threw the harvest of hair indignantly into the bin Both times a peach. The second time, i shouted "ole" myself. Well not shouted, whimpered it somewhere in my head.  I was so mad with the bezerker fire of you can violate my nostril, but you can never take away my freedom, im not sure of the timeline. Did william wallace even have nose hair?

He then started waxing up my left ear with the steaming hot goop and by now I was as tame as a lamb. 

At this point if he told me to strip, I might just of listened. The yank off of the dried earwax reminded me of all the million plasters I so very carefully pulled off myself. Only this was how to do it , eastern Ferrari style. 

With the pain still swimming in my head, the humiliation of another man's brutal fingers right up my nose, I smilingly got up and went to the counter to pay.

He tells me R200 , which I immediately give him. I felt the R10 would be now excessive, considering the joy he derived from our time together.  I bid goodbye to him and the curtain voice man and I very scared shoulder toughly as you like,  strode out the shop into the glaring light. 

The guy who just walked in audibly said, don't worry about waxing today, Thank you. I immediately took solice in knowing he had the same treatment once before, so he knew how to side step the newby boy violation hot wax. 

I did manage to quip over my shoulder some incoherent mumble, then laughed manically and then ran like the blue blistering blazers. 

Facialy as naked as I've ever been. Chris Rea, singing, new born eyes only cry with pain , at the first look at the morning sun. Obviously Never had a hot wax earbud shoved up his nose unsolicted. That song would have been a whole lot differently penned during the creative writing if he had. 

Well I've joined hairless anonymous, I'm coping day by day now. The crying in the shower has stopped and I have gone to the loo without my emotional support teddybear for the first time since monday. 

Well the good news is I've got 52 years until my next dance with what i assume to be the hairless morrocco shocko. 

I've now firmly decided to samson out the next 52 years. I know, I will be talked about in eastern hairdressers across the globe. But I reckon the smell of earth filled finger nostrils has an entirely different synaptic link to me now. 😳

I still wonder if being hairless in the nose, is as cool as it grows?