I'm happy to finally announce the official grand opening of Sonder Explorations. As many of you may know this has been an exciting journey thus far and will only continue to grow. If you have not yet read the "about" section and would like a little more explanation to the wording of this company here you go...
Sonder n.
- the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own - populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries, and inherited craziness - an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lightened window at dusk (According to The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows).
Essentially, I have had this feeling many times as I'm sure you have as well. It has always fascinated me to the point that I wish I could have a closer look into the lives of others, an exploration. However, in the vastness that is the experience of life I believe that many things can ignite the feeling of sonder. A coffee cup whose handle has been held by numerous people in various situations and times. A historic building that has endured time and events unseen in the present. A belonging of sentiment that has been in someones life for a very long time or part of family possession. All of these things can stir up a feeling of sonder and even a curiosity.
My hope is that you will join me in these explorations and that, if I may, can share the sonder with you through the arts.
-CS