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I'm interested in how we perceive, construct and engage in life, and it's without a shred of irony or arch ambition that I say this.
I'm aware that our interiority is largely lived on the outside, and it's the interplay between these two spaces that captivates me: the porousness of time, of person, of place. How do perception & memory operate? What informs one's take on place, and self?
So, that's what this series is devoted to exploring—reckoning, or reconciling, with the improbability of any one fixed moment free and untangled.
Reality, the making of it.
I'm aware that our interiority is largely lived on the outside, and it's the interplay between these two spaces that captivates me: the porousness of time, of person, of place. How do perception & memory operate? What informs one's take on place, and self?
So, that's what this series is devoted to exploring—reckoning, or reconciling, with the improbability of any one fixed moment free and untangled.
Reality, the making of it.
me'an Simone
NB: I used to always say me’an Simone, and Grammy would then correct me, gently chiding as she inquired as to why I would want to call my friend “mean”.
Reality
My Selfie - What is it?
How do I take a selfie? As the term suggests, it is of the self, so don’t I then need to know what self is, or where it is? How do I find it, and how do I know when I have?
In an effort to locate my self for the selfie, does my search involve looking for what’s made this self, what’s informed it up to this point: where I’ve been, where I come from, what I do, what I don’t (or did and didn’t), who’s been there along the way and now—what counts, and what’s cut out?
What does self encompass? What’s the formative stuff that matters? Can I even know this? There’s the obvious stuff, and what I believe is significant, but there’s also all the subterranean stuff that I’m not aware of—all those known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns. Does that count?
And what about what’s to come? All the stuff self has put in motion that has yet to happen? What I want and hope for, where I want to go and be—is all that part if self too?
How do I take a selfie? As the term suggests, it is of the self, so don’t I then need to know what self is, or where it is? How do I find it, and how do I know when I have?
In an effort to locate my self for the selfie, does my search involve looking for what’s made this self, what’s informed it up to this point: where I’ve been, where I come from, what I do, what I don’t (or did and didn’t), who’s been there along the way and now—what counts, and what’s cut out?
What does self encompass? What’s the formative stuff that matters? Can I even know this? There’s the obvious stuff, and what I believe is significant, but there’s also all the subterranean stuff that I’m not aware of—all those known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns. Does that count?
And what about what’s to come? All the stuff self has put in motion that has yet to happen? What I want and hope for, where I want to go and be—is all that part if self too?
