Count your blessings

Counting the Rice @ Museum Voorlinden

Performance 310126

Marina Abramovic
“Technology is great, but it’s also dangerous. We need to learn how to create free time for ourselves again. The only way to do that is through some long-term activities, like Counting the Rice."

~nies

Stillness
inside
the storm
counting the rice
as practice
as protest
technology accelerates
attention fractures
danger
is forgetting
how to stay
sit
long enough
to feel time
first
the heart interrupts
too fast
conditioned
by elsewhere
grain
after grain
this is long-term
this is free time
reclaimed
through endurance
not abundance
but repetition
numbers thin
meaning loosens
the storm continues
updates
feeds
noise
inside
stillness
is pressure
held
without release
count
until productivity fails
count
until boredom breaks
hands learn
what the mind abandons
no shortcut
no device
no reward
silence
measured
one grain at a time
when counting
becomes presence
count your blessings