A story is like a map. Life is like a story of stories, maps within maps, like a fractal you can always go in further, deeper right down to the territory that each moment holds. Our expressions, our pieces of work, are sign posts along the way, and surely ZBOOK is a major one for us, telling the story of and mapping out 14 years of our living, being, and synergizing. A story of stories it is. A 4D map of our growth as artists and as friends, of our young lives.
But this map is not to be figured out. Life is too wonderfully messy for that. And truth is always changing based on perspective ...there are certainly an infinite number of perspectives from a multitude of moments that shaped ZBOOK ...and infinitely more to experience ZBOOK with. This page started out with words, phrases that mutated into other phrases that with continued added words mutated into other phrases and on and on until it became a fishbowl of expressions, all specific phrases linked so closely that they seem like a school of individual fishes. Reminds me of Johnathan Harris' work, which I shared about in my "Collecting Stories" post a few weeks back. These phrases are all "partial glimpses" into our mind, a mental or emotional map if you will (from 1998 mostly). Our stories are the map to our lives, the destination being the map itself."Mapa" offers another mapping point, this photograph from summer of 2002, of Jennifer's husband Tony, her daughter at 1 1/2 yr old, and Vinh, my partner at the time, of whom I've mentioned in prior posts... for it is impossible to reflect on the last 14 years with out thinking of Vinh... as we were together since high school and all through my 20's. I am so profoundly blessed that he and I today share a friendship, this is a gift in my life... for Vinh is an amazing man that I am proud to know and honored to call family. Vinh is my oldest, dearest friend.
"mapa"
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ReplyDeletei can relate to this entry soooo much!
i spent most of my summer working for a smoothie stand & jumping from festival to festival that way . . . being among so many beautiful people with beautiful ideas, i found myself sometimes vortexed into different directions than what i planned, sometimes good, sometimes. . . not) so i started a truth / map / intention journal . whenever i feel lost, or unsure of someone else's intent, i open my journal to any random page & feel soooo much reassurance . mind maps to me are stories & also the webs that hold my space. . . :)
Yes Kimberly! O the joy of the companion our journals are! the very collecting of our story glimpses tell a great story and its mapping can be so key for retro reflection, helping us to sense more clearly where we stand today, the shape of us today, in the perspective of the shape of us from before of which we noted with words and drawings and objects. it's all about being fluid, creating in every moment, breathing expression. love to hear you are allowing yourself to fully BE.... innately creative.
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