Being rather than expressing
Project: Branding the Species

While I attempt to map out my own life into words and images (hopefully later), I realize just how hard it is to convey an idea through text rather than through expression and movement of the body. Somehow, it seems easier to be rather than to express. Expression, or at least expression that is planned for dispersion, often involves critical thought and linked concepts, while being is just simply existing. In many ways I wonder if is there really a definite or somewhat similar standard that everyone lives by. Are the standards to which I am judging myself also just standards that I have obtained after my mind has filtered through it? Are the standards that we call standards not just opinions that have become slowly morphed into other things by the visual propaganda we are exposed to daily? I don't know, but I guess this is what I have to figure out for myself.

Thu, May 15, 2008  Permanent link

Sent to project: Branding the Species