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Saturday, December 6, 2008 @ 11:19 PM
I doubt any but those who have seen the exhibit named doubleness, will understand this post. in most of the pictures, there seemed to be a common theme, desperation. in the subject's eyes, in the way they move, in the way they carry themselves. especially for the chain, the way I interepreted it. what happens in that particular area, is that two insane people are chained together. one of the pair will be slightly more sane than the other, and this would be the "leader" of the pair. they'll be chained together, around the stomach, throughout the day, only in sleep are they unchained from each other and chained to their own bedpost. imagine, if every morning, you are woken up, unchained, only to be chained again. the cycle repeats day after day, day after day. if you knew what was happening, how would you feel? desperation. loneliness. you're being forced into this place, this place with no medication, no cure, no way to help yourself. you exist as a pair, exist as a number perhaps, a statistic. no identity, that's for sure. who takes a mad person seriously? chinatown, didnt hit me so hard. but loneliness, and that sense of endless waiting. someone once told me she hated to wait for people, cause it is a utter waste of time. I can understand. but for them, the waiting is endless. you never know when you'll see your partner again. on the board, one sentence really hit me. " they lead double lives. married, but single. has children, but childless. together, yet apart" they have firework celebrations to thank the gods when they're allowed to move to the US. is this the hidden side of newyork? a capitalist, successful city where machines whirl? double happiness. double desperation. vacant empty eyes, a wedding without love. mass wedding at that. people have to be taught how to place their hands on their partner's shoulders and waist. women like produces, things to be bought, traded. how's that fair? how how how is that fair? people spend millions on the perfect wedding, and these people, they dont even get to choose who they marry? poverty? who would do this willingly? is it just me? or is this world, an unjust, stupid, pathethic place? think of it. we're chained to the secular world. are these, then, the real faces of the world? somehow, an unbrearable saddness weighs down my mind. and I cant seem to get these images out of my head. what the photographer did, for me, was to put a face, to these phenomenons I've heard of. he made it real. |
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