Noticing and Accepting Truths… A Meditation
Most of this series was inspired by thoughts and feelings… living vicariously through the moment… not really thinking too much about thinking, rather just reflecting thoughts and feelings, sensations and stimulations I was experiencing in real time.
The technique that help me make the exotic looking faces, consisted of me closing my eyes, and using my figure to follow the contours of my face. Without picking up my pen, I would draw the lines I feel… not thinking about where the pen is going, but rather focusing on what I am actually feeling. The experience was very meditative… very freeing. However, simultaneously very uncomfortable as I prioritized depicting the “truth” and coherently reflecting thoughts and feelings, over filtering myself and holding my self back from depicting piece that might be uncomfortable to comprehend. Whether what is depicted below is actually “true”/real, is completely debatable and up to the viewer to interpret and decide.
Now that the time that I have created this has past, I, as the viewer, don’t believe my perception of some situations were entirely accurate (like I dont fully belive a man would tell a woman “ur face is ugly but your body is nice…”). But I also have this theory that to every joke or fictional story… lies some truth. Perhaps not the entire joke or story is entirely true, but there is a fraction of it that is true… the truth is the center of the joke or story and the rest is grey matter that tries to muffle the truth.
That said, i challenge the viewer to try and notice the truth in each photo… if the truth is to uncomfortable to comprehend, that is normal… as I said before, I was uncomfortable making it. But in the end, a truth is a reality… you can’t escape reality… u can only except it and choose how you would like for things to be moving forward. So as I except these truths, I choose to share them with others, in hopes that the bad/unwanted/uncomfortable truths become recognized and challenged, dismantled, and eventually disappear.
