Friday, 4 July 2025

Is Absence an Act?

This one turns toward absence, presence, and the relational life of what isn’t there:

RHEO:
We often speak of what is here.
But what of what is not?

TOPO:
Absence feels like negation—
a lack, a missing.

RHEO:
But is it only that?
Or can absence do something?

TOPO:
You mean: can absence act?

RHEO:
Yes.
The unspoken reshapes the said.
The empty chair alters the room.

TOPO:
Then absence is not passive.
It participates—by contour, by contrast.

RHEO:
And sometimes, what is withheld
speaks louder than what is shown.

TOPO:
So absence is not nothing.
It is a relational presence.


RHEO & TOPO:
What is not there still shapes what is.
Silence is not empty—
It listens.

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