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Suzanne
Segal
(1955 -1997, United States)
Biography Excerpt:
One day at a bus stop in Paris,
Suzanne Segal, 27 years old and pregnant, lost her sense of personal identity.
“I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head-on with
an invisible force that entered my awareness like a silently exploding
stick of dynamite, blowing the door of my usual consciousness open and
off its hinges, splitting me in two. In the gaping space that appeared,
what I had previously called ‘me’ was forcefully pushed out of its usual
location inside me into a new location that was approximately a foot behind
and to the left of my head. ‘I’ was now behind my body looking out at the
world without using the body’s eyes.”
This was Suzanne’s “collision with the
infinite.”
Enlightenment Story Excerpt:
...Several buses came and went before I
finally saw the number 37 approaching down the wide avenue. Six or seven
of us were waiting together at the stop, exchanging pleasantries about
the weather and comments about the new advertising campaign that had been
appearing on all the billboards. As the bus approached, we congregated
expectantly near the curb. The bus lumbered to a halt, expelling the acrid
odor of exhaust fumes and hot rubber into the warm Spring air.
As I took
my place in line. I suddenly felt my ears stop up like they do when the
pressure changes inside an airplane as it makes its descent. I felt cut
off from the scene before me, as if I were enclosed in a bubble, unable
to act in any but the most mechanical manner. I lifted my right foot to
step up into the bus and collided head-on with an invisible force that
entered my awareness like a silently exploding stick of dynamite, blowing
the door of my usual consciousness open and off its hinges, splitting me
in two.