“[I]f you don’t know who you are,” Robert Greene says. If you’ve never pulled aside what obscures the distance between yourself and your obscurities. If you’ve never taken particular notice of the particular things about yourself that you’ve pushed to the periphery of your being.
“[I]f you don’t know what marked you as a weird person when you were a child”, Greene continues. If you’ve never come to terms with what made you different. With what made you unique. With what kept you from fitting in.
If you’ve never plotted the points of your traumas, heartbreaks, and scars like navigating a course by stars, “then you’re lost in life”, Greene says, and perhaps it’s time you begin…
P.S. ICAD - Day 178 - 180
P.P.S. Thanks to the help fellow artist Sinclair Neeson (IG here)I have two small pieces in a UK show called “Fault Line Gaza 355”. See below:
Everything about this is beautiful—the images, the words, and spirit in which you offer them. Thank you, Duane for all the ways you help me see.
The collages are amazing!