[in progress]
The title suggests a divergence, yet it remains such that we mere humans are centered, set, and have to do both, simultaneously, just to survive. Skip either one, focus on one or the other, and punishment ensues in the contingencies of not knowing what’s up or down.
Trying to write some. so fragmented…
Two infinite half spaces, a simple geo-mathematical model, each opposed, opposing.
Chinese cosmology: 天 :: 地 Heaven::Earth
What’s it like, each active process?
Looking at the ground
A bit useless when one is static and at night, unless there is a full moon.
Material wealth, physical safety. Interpretation of signs? Difference is based on movement. Navigating in the dark.
Watching the sky
Contemplative passivity?
Dangerous when in motion. Requires patience. But change is best noted when the body is static. Atmospheres.
Interpretation of signs? The semiotics of reading the sky… daytime versus nighttime…
What *does* one learn from watching the sky, anyway. Is there a particular outcome?
My colleague Matt somehow melds both together as a meteorite chaser and a geologist: waiting, watching for messages to arrive from the heavens, while keeping an eye on what the earth is doing beneath the feet.