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starlings, and when they’re head on, they disappear, but when they
turn, then there’s a black smudge in the sky.
Lucy:
How would you name that, the entity or fascination, the triggering of
joy that it really captures? What are you aligning with when things
like that happen?
Daniel:
The nature one? The universe. The world, the color? Beauty. A
strange place to find it, a mass-produced car—not a museum—
grabbing me.
Lucy:
Do they make you feel alive?
Daniel:
Yeah, alive, connected, not just alive in myself, but part of
something.
Lucy:
In these moments, what were you shifting away from and what were
you shifting towards?
Daniel:
I was shifting away from somnambulance, being zombie-like.
Plodding through the world.
Lucy:
What is the shift towards?
Daniel:
Joy, awakening. Some diffusion of the boundary between me and
other things. More of a part of the world. It brought another
meaning to Thanksgiving.
Reflecting on Daniel’s story, perhaps a key purpose of psychology is to cocreatively reimagine the self and the world beyond the margins of convention.
Our conversation helps me see Foucault’s “docile bodies” become “enlivened
spirits” as a small part of the world, or, as Kusama states, “one polka dot: a single
particle among billions” (2002/2015, p. 23). By exploring Pipilotti Rist’s
installations, we can see an additional decentered approach to being in the world.
Breaking the Frame: Aesthetic Encounters with Narrative Practice – Part Three
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, May 2026 Release, p. 25-51.
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