"Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything"
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A shrug and a credo at once, the line toggles between detachment and embrace. It mocks the impulse to force connections while quietly affirming that everything is connected anyway. The paradox lands like a Zen aside: if you look with one kind of attention, a thing has nothing to do with anything; with another, it has something to do with everything. Meaning is not a property in the object so much as a function of relation, framing, and play.
Eric San, known to many as the turntablist Kid Koala, has built a career on that tilt of perception. A scratch DJ stitches together fragments that were never meant to share a stage: a horn stab from a forgotten record, a cartoon snippet, a cough, a footstep. Each sound, isolated, has nothing to do with anything. In the fabric of a set, it becomes part of everything, a living groove. The same spirit runs through his graphic stories, where small, quiet gestures carry cosmic weight. He treats the trivial as a doorway to the whole.
The phrase also reads as a guide for navigating a world of surplus signals. Most of what we encounter online feels random or irrelevant. Yet any fragment can light up if placed against the right question or in the right company. The skill is not to insist on importance everywhere, but to remain open to the moment when a stray detail blooms into a pattern.
There is humility in the first clause, refusing grand claims. There is generosity in the second, granting even the tiniest thing a chance to matter. Together they sketch an ethic of attention: resist the compulsion to explain everything; cultivate the curiosity that lets everything explain itself. Between those stances, art and life move.
Eric San, known to many as the turntablist Kid Koala, has built a career on that tilt of perception. A scratch DJ stitches together fragments that were never meant to share a stage: a horn stab from a forgotten record, a cartoon snippet, a cough, a footstep. Each sound, isolated, has nothing to do with anything. In the fabric of a set, it becomes part of everything, a living groove. The same spirit runs through his graphic stories, where small, quiet gestures carry cosmic weight. He treats the trivial as a doorway to the whole.
The phrase also reads as a guide for navigating a world of surplus signals. Most of what we encounter online feels random or irrelevant. Yet any fragment can light up if placed against the right question or in the right company. The skill is not to insist on importance everywhere, but to remain open to the moment when a stray detail blooms into a pattern.
There is humility in the first clause, refusing grand claims. There is generosity in the second, granting even the tiniest thing a chance to matter. Together they sketch an ethic of attention: resist the compulsion to explain everything; cultivate the curiosity that lets everything explain itself. Between those stances, art and life move.
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