Bruce Chatwin: Traveling, unfixed, nomadic, dissolving.
Identity that spreads far and wide but nearly imperceptibly… underground. The way Deleuze and Guattari speak of identity as rhizomatic in A Thousand Plateaus... each of us growing outward rather than upward. This puts the emphasis less on power and hierarchy, and more on a plurality of equally empowered humans.
Chatwin travelled and with each adventure he revealed, using his light to allow others to shine. Makes me wonder if there’s such a thing as altruistic travel. Perhaps his photo should be completely white.
Original Photo: Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. See also the post: Turning Identity into Gold
