Sheath of feeling. Words groping to touch air.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
SELF FIGHT by Eduardo Cuadrado
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Despite the struggle to remove it, the cutting and the blood, the mask does not come off. This leaves me with many thoughts about the ways we construct ourselves -the social constructionists would say we are entirely constructed through reiteration of performatives. Repeating our models. Perhaps the mask is who he pretended to be that became more who he was than his, ...his original configuration. Stunning short piece. A visual poem!
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