Tightrope walker in-situ

“To be in suspense,  is to hold your breath. And look with as much attention as possible, what is simply there, what is offered to you in the presence of things.

The test is in this balance won over the void; at any time it can break. The tightrope walker risks falling, especially when he stops, when he practices standing there, almost without moving. It is his own impetus that he retains and which nevertheless would restore his stability. A tightrope walker, he prefers to attempt this miracle of suspension while leaning on the rope. You could say he's waiting – but that's another thing. The suspension is not a time stopped before something happens, it is the event itself; the entry into this intimate time where in reality the decision has already been made, but no one knows it yet. »

Excerpt from “Praise of risk” Anne Dufourmantelle.