working -
For me, the idea of mahjong solitaire is
as both symbol and strange disassociation.
(I play only online and have never played table mahjong)
I started playing when my husband died to ease grief and panic.
Why do I continue?
Pictures, strokes, and symbols,
matched across space
on the internet "plain",
help me "see" my grief and panic
as linked to a "landscape" of life,
not lacking it.
I suppose another system may have been chosen,
but the life forces in mahjong patterns and sets speaks to me as an artist.
It struck me how deeply images and words reside within our minds,
which in turn has led me to order
Wittgenstein's blue and brown notebooks.
