CONCLUSION

Some get into Street Basket because it’s a passion, some use it to ventilate emotions, and others see it as a way to bring across a message. But for me, Street Basket is as essential and natural as breathing. The Street Basket teach ‘art’, passion to children and adolescents who have difficulty expressing their feelings using words. The sublimation is attained when ‘moves, sounds’ are created that successfully contain joy, anger, anxiety, or pain. The Athlete puts his emotions in a ‘move’, ‘uniformless’, not because he is nudes in particular, but because uniform would immediately give him an identity. He’d become someone instead of anyone. The intention is or anybody to feel they can relate to those moves and to project their own interpretations and emotions onto them.

‘I really try to put the spectator in the situation, to make them feel something. It doesn’t have to be the same feeling for everyone. It makes more sense to me that they appropriate my ‘work’ and that they make their own story, putting your own spin on a ‘move’ that came from the soul of someone. I’m trying to speak directly to a more magical state of mind. It’s about feeling with your heart rather than our head’.

Basketball is ever evolving, not static. In the same way that not everyone can become a teacher, the same can be said for an ‘Athlete’. The art itself can be learned through training and practice, but all the other skills, that aren’t in the ‘job description’, can only really be mastered by natural empaths who know when to speak and, most importantly, when to listen. Similarly, in refraining from showing things as we perceive them, I leave the door open for others to find meaning in my ‘Glimpses of Life’ and resonate with what, in everyday life, they can no longer see.