the shape of breathing — a circular song — subliminal soundtrack of life — interweaving voices — surfacing connections — tempered grounds asking for support — carpet as a sheet of paper — holding the line — bodies present — extreme presence — When it gets really difficult you want to disentangle rather than to cut the knot. ellipsis in search of forms — for a social fabric — looming three dimensional commas — language for a room to share silence — making breaths audible — zoomed in a net of threads — serpentines winding around our bodies — black and white veins — calligraphy — font without end nodes — shut down — senses — now — mending tears in domestic spheres inferential walks through textures breathing apart — sewing together phantom threads whole hole hold told space void pause breathe in mark — remark — gap sew up breathe out in out in out in ellipsis avoiding the object — the subject — the building — carpet as metaphor — sculpturing — an agency of respiratory distress — remediating — garments — leave — linear — body — sleeves filled with fake cotton — monitoring breathing — before — after — before — after — soft openings — against closure — fingers crossed — when sewing, a thimble protects the finger from pinpricks — in and out — in — end — out — spontaneously — start again — start — again — start again — I see myself feel — language itself is never in a state of rest — I observe — patiently — take it slow — naturally — stop — keep going — my hands — always endless — stitching around the limits of words — abyss paradise — a flowering focus on a distinct infinity — not in straight lines but in curves and swirls — thought particles, flow — and change — close the open — open the close — open — close — open — period — dot — dot — dot — close it — endless — without ending — there’s no closure, it doesn’t stop — fixing holes in habits — as passageway — displacement producing a gap — unfollowing certainty — pending state — remediating defective matter — concealing wear and tear — movement unfixed — harness closure for amended joints — patching the sore point – Some of our references: “On Punctuation” by Gertrude Stein, “The Rejection of Closure” by Lyn Hejinian, “Word & Thread” by Cecilia Vicuña, “Three Guineas” by Virginia Woolf, “Ellipsis in English Literature, Signs of Omission” by Anne Toner, “Castration or Decapitation?” by Hélène Cixous, “Garments against Women” by Anne Boyer, “Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation” by Richard Sennet, “Circular Song” by Joan La Barbara. Background Audio: “Cathing” by Joan La Barbara