ABSTRACT

In a way, much academic debate has been flirting with space for some time. This chapter suggests a character of flirting in terms of energies of and between things, and the apparent human need to hold on to some value or meaning of space. It seeks to unravel the representation-non-representation dilemma through attending to the flows amongst each and amongst them as they become considered as one multiple and fracturing complexity. The chapter considers the expressive character of creativity in everyday life; expression in materiality and in friendship, thinking and feeling. Lives, energies in the widest sense, and time are however not fixed. In thinking of human life, the chapter explores the possibilities of everyday human engagement in a complex world in terms of capacities, situations and processes of creativity. It draws on modest things, events, and beginning to suggest threads that such instances pick up. The chapter considers examples of artwork and mundane life; merging and overlapping processes.