What form should text take when we can move freely? Dreaming, exploring, reminiscing, narrating. Connecting observations, ideas, pauses, and wonder at things both ordinary and extraordinary, quoting theoretical facts and fiction. A form where we move freely, yet deliberately, because we know about the unknowability hidden in our every step.
In the book Weaving Text to Find Rhythm, Jana Švecová seeks mutuality of thought—a certain sensitivity that is an indispensable part of art understood as a means of lifelong learning. That is, something that takes on meaning when it merges with our lives and, in a sense, can remain there forever. She calls this mutuality the search for rhythm. To uncover it, the author considers the meanings of memory, dreaming, freedom, movement, and change to be important. The search for rhythm is understood here as a metaphor for orientation in art/life.
The text is written using the "woven text" method. The term was introduced by Daniela Hodrová. The structure of woven text is characterized by repetition, recollection, networked connections, the development of common thematic knots, and the intertwining of reality and dreams.
The book attempts to create a piece of its own fabric and retrospectively discover the knots and loops that hold it together.