Symbols are apart of what things are!
Everything is also symbolic. Nothing doesn’t also symbolize. It’s part of reading things well, to listen to its symbolic dimension. It’s also part of healing people and cities.
The brick layer is also always making a pathway. The trash-man, also a poet of how we discard things. They both are tending metaphors. Artists just make that more foregrounded or overt. The old pair of worn out shoes, become a metaphor of a whole life lived.
They bring the always there backstage, onto the stage. I like thinking about how to reattach the symbol with identity.
That integration has always most interested me, whether with people, places or things. I like it when things are being themselves, and symbolizing themselves, and mending that connection. Tending the symbolic is underrated. It’s a huge part of making things whole. “We are, therefore we symbolize!” It’s simply a part of being human. And healing can begin through symbols.