As I create, I find myself dealing with and interrogating the Self and the notion of various seemingly ambiguous polarities: tradition/innovation, African/Western, ethnically-specific/ and cosmic or pseudo-universal with a Eurocentric base or Western inflection, individual/communal, created/and found or inherited, history/His-story, past/ and future experienced in the present, masculinity/femininity, nature/culture, inner/outer, personal/public, physical/spiritual, artist/family:father, the living/ and the active dead:ancestors, individual achievement/ collaboration, truth/lies or illusion, programmed/ transcendent, awake/asleep, fragment we call: intellect/ consciousness which encompasses everything including body and heart as experiential participant not just detached pseudo-thinker/observer, wholistic/compartmentalized, causes/effects, surface/the deep...
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:01:08 +0000
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