“Was ist der Mensch?” triggers a distinctive set of sensations away from “What is Man?” 

In further retrospection of these fleeing sensations, the first set feels more elegant, and yet also possesses an attribute of melancholy as if sustained in the attenuation of the noise band with which the word ‘Mensch’ exits via its last uttered phoneme; hushed into silence. 

Could it be before the play starts? The dance erupts? The pinnacle found in a last aria sung? 

As shampoo mixed in fluidity of waters, too busy bubbly, Mensch washes over, leaving certainty in shambles. 

—animasuri’22

thank you Dr.WSA for subtext, context, and text text and for guiding to J. Brian Hennessy who offered text.
thank you J. Brian Hennessy for the space to cycle back

perverse note-taking of Hans-Georg Gadamer‘s 1944 by the same phrase as title, as published in Phainomena’s “The Covid 19 Crisis”. 30 | 116-117 | April 2021, and a recent bbc world interview with a famous South African visual artist (who’s parents were famous anti-apartheid lawyers) and who uses charcoal into animation…

Header visual: playdoh sculpture by Aiden H. Photograph by animasuri’22