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 CIRCLES

    When I was younger, I was desperate to understand other people, so I would look at them and infer what I could by reflecting my lived experience onto the,. This is how I learned that people could understand Spanish (since I could understand English). When I got a little older, I began to notice the differences more often, so I would try the inverse to figure out myself, and why the differences exist. I still don't. I want to.

    I see circles everywhere. I don't quite understand what it means, and why we live our lives in loops, but I want to understand. This is part of that. 

For all the computers I've worked with, I still can't figure out how to move the images.

    Personally, I feel pretty dissatisfied with the project so far. I feel as if there's still something missing, but that is part of the point: trying to identify what I don't understand, and also connect with people there. That's why I wanted to bring people in to watch the process of it, and to talk about it the way I made it: in circles. That didn't quite work out how I wanted it.

Image courtesy of yung Tuck

    I think I like it when things don't work out how you planned. Flawlessness is impressive, but mistakes feel mortal. Talking in circles did not create effective communication, but we do it all the time anyway. I've been wondering what's in that empty middles between the semicircles. What do we keep skirting around? People's questions and thoughts helped me think too, and oddly enough I have never felt so sure when expressing my ideas, even though I approached something so foreign. Maybe it is friendlier than I thought. Maybe I know it because I see it in you.

    I plan to "finish" this project at a later date with a full 21 days, but I think most of this project lives in the back and forth of it, the sitting in it. Maybe that is all art. I don't know, but that's nothing knew.