responsible imagination
Make The World Answer Back
Tune power, tenderness, refusal, and strangeness. Touch the field to place a new island; the compass redraws around what the world now has to hold.
imagination instrument
Worlding Compass
A field for tuning power, tenderness, refusal, and strangeness until a made world becomes answerable.
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Beauty Owes The World A Witness
A made world does not have to explain itself, but it should be answerable to what it touches. This compass holds four pressures at once: power without domination, tenderness without sentimentality, refusal without cruelty, and strangeness without escape.