Today it felt right to chose an image from 2015 when I joined in with a series of lessons from a photography magazine, we would try out a technique and then we would send in our picture for a critique. You have seen one of the images from the series earlier in the year. Today however I was thinking once again how this image manifests the different aspects of our being.
This week I guess I have ben contemplating how as human beings we have so many versions of ourselves that we show or hide depending on the person we speak to. Of course, this not a topic that is new to us my dear readers, we spoke of this a few times in these past months. We mentioned it as a mask, we mentioned it as a core self, we spoke of it as perhaps our emotions.
In this image I used a light to outline a glass in very low lighting which of course created this red-ish picture with the light swirling and almost creating ripples of the glass and created a multi dimensionality to the image as if the glass exists in different planes of existence.
Today as I was going through the motions of my own human existence I reflected on how it sometimes feels like I am observing myself doing things whilst perhaps in reality I am somewhere else. This week I have been reading a book which sparked my imagination and therefore every time I was reading a few chapters I was escaping my reality through imagining the world of the book I was reading. Every time I put the book down it felt like I was pulled back into a reality that perhaps felt uncomfortable and in of itself unreal. When I was working with clients this week, I noticed how many of them seemed to zone in and out of what they would have perceived being this reality. You could see how their eyes would glaze over shifting just a little bit out of focus, as if the body was here but their mind was vacating the premises. Perhaps they were in their own past as their were trying to link up what we were speaking of with what they have experienced in the past or perhaps their mind was trying to protect them from re-living or re-experiencing some strong emotions. When they would re-join the discussion embodied and present you could almost perceive how they struggled with the here and now.
Have you ever had such experiences, where you almost felt like the real is not so real after all? And I am not talking about someone who has a mental disorder that makes them feel like they are not themselves. I am talking about your mind feeling that it just woke up from a dream, but the dream feels more real than the here and now? Does some version of you along the years feel more real than others? How many versions of you were there since the moment you were born and until today? How many “skins” have you shed in order to be the person you are today? Do you ever go back and put on that persona again and try it on for size? Do you have any version of you that you are holding onto just in case it may become useful at some point? Do you have an umbra that follows you about that haunts you and you just can’t get rid of?
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