to those readers who do not know me personally, who i am does not matter, nor do my demographics or other statistical measures that act as symbolic placeholders for my being. i intend to give you no such heuristic lens to view me through or draw assumptions from. simply put: like yourself, i too am a person.
as people, we have a love-hate relationship with change. change is a mutual relationship between the subjective experiencer and the object experienced. like yourself, I participate in this process. change things. deconstruct. create. intentionally or through impulse.
the creative process is deeply subjective, and relies on a constant internal dialogue of decisions. it is proof of one’s ability to tangibly enact their subjective will onto their own experience, if not the experience of others as well. and the product of this process is both symbolic of one’s subjective intent, and a symbolic shapeshifter in that its meaning will forever change as the observer does.
of course this process of creativity is applicable to most every setting in which a person must enact an idea. however in the case of art, which rarely contributes to our societies increased productivity, efficiency, or other “line-go-up” economic metrics, there is something in the process that speaks to love — something one values so deeply that they no longer feel the urge to justify its existence with logic. it allows for an avenue to accept subjectivity as real, and deconstruct the hierarchy in which objectivity and efficiency are held above all else. as such we can understand that our lives as individuals will only ever be experienced moment-to-moment, through one ephemeral and ever-changing point of view followed by the next. no human is a machine. we are all a product of our experiences. we all hold biases. we will never know for certain what anyone or anything will do next. everything is probability. everything changes. even science. even ourselves. especially ourselves.
it brings me great satisfaction to live in circumstances that allow for my creative expression. like most things in my life, the people in my life and those who came before me are to thank for creating these circumstances, and for that i am eternally grateful.
as for you, dear reader, thank you for your attentiveness and curiosity.
with love,
the person who runs this thing
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