Rose B. Simpson

I constantly ...

I'm imagining the next best thing.

I'm imagining, I'm laying there like, that window should be over there, and how can I do that?

And like, I look at a car and I don't see the car, I see what it could be, right?

Like, I look at a garden and I don't see the garden, I see what it could be, and then I begin.

and I feel like I will always be doing that, no matter what.

I'm always going to be searching, whether that's in the world around me and how to better that and how to listen to it, ask how I can be of service of it, and then do work.

and the satisfaction of stepping back and seeing how something transformed.

That is that applied aesthetic to the world around me in all things.

And I feel like that is also internal.

So it's also that internal investigation of our psychological and spiritual spaces.

I am a vessel and I am aware.

and I am moving and I am making decisions intentionally in this world.

And I make ceramic vessels that are hollow inside, and they are watching, and they are doing work, and they are independent, and they make their own decisions, and they move through the world with a job to do.

And so do cars.

And so do the houses we live in, the spaces we inhabit.

They're all watching, they're all listening, and they're all making decisions if we are aware.

Tell me how you become aware.

I like to ask.

And I think the first thing that we can do is begin to ask.