Amstel Principle: Structure, Perception, and the Unresolved Question of the Banks

The Amstel River was once one hundred fifty metres wide.Now it is twenty. Someone narrowed it. The water obeyedbecause it had no choice.That observation becomes a principle: form requires constraint.Without banks, no river. Without constraint, no form.Without form, no meaning.But the question that follows will not close: who decideswhere the banks go?ZT Tosha walks the banks of the Amstel on an Ap...