ramp - EN Magazine

9 October 2023

In few other places do people purposefully drive around going really nowhere than in a road movie. Just heading along, the journey itself a wonderfully blank page that presents itself to us with a cheerful unpredictability, as an inspired playing field for trial and error, for curiosity and spontaneity, unexpected surprises and flights of fancy. Wild and untamed. Just like life itself. Wildness means energy and strength, it doesn’t like to be restrained by rules. The truly wild and free need little that is familiar. Danger is no obstacle to them. Readily, they dance with the unknown, journey into the depths of thought and imagination. In his work La pensée sauvage (in a new translation rendered as Wild Thought), the French anthropologist and philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss contrasts the planning and rational engineer with the improvising bricoleur who creatively combines whatever items are available to him and anticipates the unanticipated while staying relaxed and self-assured, trusting in his skill for combination and improvisation. Always courageously open for whatever life has to offer. Having an attitude like that actually sounds like a really good plan...