Assembly Instructions

You’ve bought a Portal. Now you must build it.

The French, naturally, call it a Portique. They believe their young ones pass through and emerge transformed: braver.

The Japanese obliquely refer to your purchase as a Sora no ko “air child.” For them, the structure actually disappears, becoming a superstructural meeting of sound.

Sora no ko built -

structure lost, the sky invoked:

spirit meets the squeal.

Closer to home, in Worcestershire we hold that they channel courage,

All traditions imply that the transformed will one day soon offer small gestures of gratitude. These gestures are believed to show appreciation for the determination you are about to bring to bear.

That gratitude stuff frankly sounds absurd and it’s all probably nonsense, and yet… perhaps you feel it?

Might be, when this Portique stands complete, something will shift.

The space inside the frame become charged with possibility, and someone small, wild, brilliant will take hold of it, disturb the balance, harness weary gravity, and swing.

Don’t let your familiarity with this greatest of all languages dull its power.

To swing is to arc above the earth, to play with that which would grind us down and to find a winding way through, like rivers finding the sea.

What you’ve bought is a Swing Frame, what you’ll build is the architecture of becoming (Sanskrit?).