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STATEMENT OF WORK
Transmigratory Gesture
trans·mi·grate (trăns-mī′grāt′, trănz-) v.
1. To migrate.
2. To pass into another body after death. Used of the soul.
ges·ture (jĕs′chər) n.
1. a. A motion of the limbs or body made to express or help express thought or to emphasize speech.
b. The action of making such a motion or motions: communicated solely by gesture.
To the sensitive eye, metaphoric and actual expressions of the Transmigratory gesture can be spotted everywhere from roadkill to elevators
Despite its relation to the ideas of ascension and descension The transmigratory gesture is not hierrachorl, polar or for that matter lateral, but rather, belongs to the class of ebbs and flows-- of furlings and unfurlings.
The contemplator, one example, curls around their innermost pit, finding themself so far in as to be far-out. In the non-human order the Transmigratory gesture is most easily discernible in trees, both in their subterranean sprawling, and overhead in sky-ward yearnings.
In painting we may see the Transmigratory gesture in the contorted tippy-toes of el greco’s saints, or in a siberian shaman’s map detailing his climb up the nine branches of the world tree. The transmigratory gesture is both violently destructive & abundantly generative. It is Possibly Ecstatic, introspective, or painful, but certainly of change and always changing.