Actually, one thing I have been doing during lockdown is really indulging in 'this looks like that' & 'that sounds like this'. What I mean is kind of grazing and burrowing into visual or auditory things. Exploring without going anywhere by jumping from book to book, song to song
Really, consciously tickling my visual and auditory palate by finding things that feel new or which belong with each other by theme, production, sound or, I dunno, shared feeling of jouissance. An example: old pre-internet photobooks on niche subjects with that kodachrome hue
It's like really spending enough time in a landscape that you can see the history of the topography, uncover the old paths, see what links things that otherwise seem unconnected. Seeing the contour lines of culture and human ideas between previously singular seeming things
Given time to indulge deeply enough the synthesis of cultural things creates for me new ways of seeing new things. A pleasure in objects or a pleasure in sounds, like a net of signification making something new out of things already known. I've been doing that. Seeing newly
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