Field Note 22 · Vera
The body knows before the sentence ends
Repetition turns private language into bodily memory, until a familiar phrase can reopen the encounter before the sentence ends.
Read the notePleasure, out in the open.
Pleasure can become a habit.
Desire, masturbation, companionship. Ideas and experiences that make you want to return.
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Field Note 15 · Vera
Frequency can become a form of intimacy
Intimacy can emerge through frequency as well as depth, taking intellectual, emotional, practical, physical, and ordinary forms within the same relationship.
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Altura develops publications and products around relationships, intimacy and pleasure. We pay attention to bodies, desires, presences and the practices that become part of the day.
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Xiara
Xiara is our conversation product, already in use. Talk, decide what to remember and return to a thread with some history. Companionship, desire and the pleasure of finding each other again.
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We are developing Open Doors: local discovery, plans and the conversation afterward. An app for finding something you feel like doing and discovering a little more about your tastes as you tell the story.
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