Writing A Lunar Perspective





A Lunar Perspective has been a process of collecting and connecting across. 

The writing started by taking shape as a web - connecting and weaving between the voices of others. 

The process of writing has taken me a while to get to. I have found it very challenging to stop growing the web, and to pause to reflect. I have found it hard to acknowledge that my web will be limited to me and my capacity in this moment. When one text inevitably leads to five more, it feels like ever-flowing waves, one replaced by another. But, as I have been trying to remind myself, it would be impossible, and undesirable, for there to be an end, and so I must make my own space to pause and resurface for a moment in order to write and share. 

As I began to write, my web of other people’s voices turned into a series of orbits, as the text shifts focus between themes of exploration, power, language, control, imaging, practices of mapping, bordering, nationalism and astronomy - returning with each orbit to the particular position of my body, its weight a situated reminder of my own location in relation to each conceptual orbit. And as the text began to take form on a page, the spatiality of the words aligned with my breaths - written to be read aloud.

As I have been playing with the weaving in of other people’s voices, the text now sits in two parallel streams in the book - the right hand page, the body of the text, and the left hand page, the footnotes - each could be read alone or interconnected with the other, allowing the reader to delve in as deep as they wish.





Mark