Still from Touch (video, 2002), by Janine Antoni
Balance is a process, not a state. It means holding steady a centre of gravity: a negotiation among mass and momentum and energy. On this depends stability and mobility. The tightrope walker keeps moving, or else she falls, and her successful journey is an ongoing compromise between her own mass, tension in the wire, and universal gravity.
— From “A fine balance”, in the November 2013 Caribbean Review of Books
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