wanting...

To view a piece is to distort it; we must extend the violence of translation beyond language to the exchange of intention and understanding between the artwork and the audience, between you and me. I invite you to think about the ways that you, we, can confront the perspective of desire — when does identity become pure? When is the true self in full control when it is processed for perception, for performance? We are so often confronted with ways to consume ourselves, to work ourselves out to be consumed and made palatable — how does one return to the original form when it no longer exists?

And beyond, how do we present ourselves for consumption? When to be perceived is to perform, to distort one’s actions to become more palatable, what is left of the original authentic self after it has been discarded by the viewer?