He refers to Lygia Clark's piece 'Stone and Air' (1966)
What he means is that if you're able to fully perceive the weight, shape, texture a stone has, you're under a full experience of self, and the same way you give meaning to an object, you give meaning to your body, and your whole life. That experience is the 'Assembly of Self'. (loosely translated)
And under his own experience of self, that existence doesn't belong to that place, and he depends on his own place and 'its stuff' to be happy.
'Marinheiro Só' is a folklore song written by Clementina de Jesus about a typical Brazilian sailor/fisherman. It's a work song, based on repetition. It depicts mostly the loneliness involved in the life held by them. Such loneliness is being experienced by Caetano in his exile.
He refers to Lygia Clark's piece 'Stone and Air' (1966)
What he means is that if you're able to fully perceive the weight, shape, texture a stone has, you're under a full experience of self, and the same way you give meaning to an object, you give meaning to your body, and your whole life. That experience is the 'Assembly of Self'. (loosely translated)
And under his own experience of self, that existence doesn't belong to that place, and he depends on his own place and 'its stuff' to be happy.
'Marinheiro Só' is a folklore song written by Clementina de Jesus about a typical Brazilian sailor/fisherman. It's a work song, based on repetition. It depicts mostly the loneliness involved in the life held by them. Such loneliness is being experienced by Caetano in his exile.