“The wave in the mind” is an investigation area focused on writing as a kind of curatorship. Placing particular emphasis on corporal perception as the connector channel for sensorial and intellectual senses, the project seeks to rehearse a writing, which at the same time is a listening device and research methodology, i.e. a material, physical, sensitive and sensual essay writing.

“The wave in the mind” takes its name from the original title of Ursula K. Le Guin’s book The Wave in the Mind. Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004), published in Spanish as Contar es escuchar. Sobre la escritura, la lectura, la imaginación.

When choosing the original title –The Wave in the Mind–, Le Guin was inspired by a letter Virginia Woolf sent to the poet, writer and garden landscapists Vita Sackville-West in 1926. In it, Woolf insists on the importance of finding the appropriate rhythm in writing. This process requires to physically place yourself in a sensitive observation mode, which Woolf compares to the movement of a silent wave starting out at high sea in the middle of the ocean and gradually moving towards the shore. According to her, the task consisted of detecting the movement of that wave as it approaches, breaks and settles as foam. Only then, as she states, can you recognise the rhythm underlying the words.