"Our culture's increasing valorization of the visible has greatly reduced the sensual thickness of lived experience to a single and dare I say soulless dimension."
A few things are running through my head, mostly images of.... well, images. Thursday I posted a manipulated photograph of myself to represent how I felt at the time. I was thinking about intensity and about how I would see the manipulated photograph and how my eyes in the photograph might reflect how I see. On a more embodied level, I am working with this in my solo Bear Traps and Other Impressions when I stand on stage looking at people in the audience; seeing them see me see them and then I proceed to play through different scenarios of how I feel perceived or the excuses I might make for my first impressions. The act of performing this solo is my attempt at addressing my lived experience, regardless of how it is perceived by the audience.
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