self-knowledge
We aim for self-knowledge. To know thyself. To achieve a level of self-assuredness and certainty. But is that helpful? Is that more of a hindrance than an aid? When we tie ourselves to static ideas and identities, what happens when we confront the reality of the way things change? When like everything else we cease to be the same?
We want insight into our basic nature. Our essential qualities. Our Platonic ideal. Our realm of perfect forms. But, we are characters of contradiction and simultaneity. Supple and barbed. Condemned and redeemed. Broken into wholeness. Stable and trembling. A phosphorescent species born into darkness, and not consumed.
We shimmer.
We shine.
We glow.
We fade.
We are incapable of being anything other than temporal and temperamental. Beings of enchantment, disguise, and subtlety. Visibly shifting while hidden in plain sight. Our mystery is our majesty. Our changeling nature, our plasticity, our greatest strength.
P.S. - ICAD Day 234-236 - These collages are available for purchase here.
*the first two collages below were created as submissions for the next issue of Cut Me Up Magazine.
Wonderful analogue collages! You can almost sense the texture and the smell through the screen!
There is something that has slotted into place with this series. I agree with Patris. You're on point right now.