this photograph sums up a complicated, yet compelling, year thus far. draper (because of the glass and the hat, at least) clearly shines through, but tinged -maybe even tainted- by the surrealistic qualities of what is/is not. are we here? dreaming? or there? before, after or both? i have always felt a deep attraction to donnie darko, an eccentric film about time travel and less obviously about a mythical reenactment of the passion. some would debate the latter, but i think the meditative potential of that statement is something one must truly ponder. regardless, the notion of time travel was brought back to my attention last night after finishing david lynch's twin peaks. i have always pondered what ghosts may be, and have even heard some unsubstantiated claims that science could explain what we perceive as ghosts as overlapping bits of space-time crossing into now. i would not go as far to say i agree, but it is intriguing. this year has brought the eerie, surrealistic nature of life and death to the foreground. ernst becker's pulitzer prize winning the denial of death has been treating me to some of the best reading i have ever come across. it speaks to me: reiterating the hyper-analytic posturings of kierkegaard with post-freudian psychoanalytic theory. it makes me wonder about death, meaning, myths, and the stars. yet with all of this "profound" and indecisive speciousness looming, we our confronted more directly with things that "matter" like society, structure, marriage, love, jobs and money. how and why should we care about these mysterious things when we have reality bashing us in the face everyday? like the picture, this year has made me ask myself: is "it" there? where is "it?" this money they speak of and the millions of jobs that our president is supposed to be creating... where are they? are they real? is any of this real? and when will "it" happen? consider these things in the words of gaston bachelard's wonderful words:"who speaks? the dreamer or the world?"
photograph taken by koel gibbs 2012. edited by brandon lee kramer © 2012
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