TRUDI MAAN
b. 1954 works in Arnhem
It's about what you do, scratched
earth, coloured earths, and people
As you travel and look from a distance over some parts of the desert
they seem, for instance, black. When close, one sees the black is
just created by the small black stones in between which the sand has
been blown away. The angle of looking or the place from which we view
makes up the image of our (the) world.
The choices, made for us by others, of what is seen, shown and talked
about (the media), reflect a multitude of information (streams), exemplary
of the many ways of seeing and interpreting what is happening. We
know this is not the case and this stimulates our scepticism (here
as a positive human capability) towards the 'truths'; it makes us
realise (rediscover, rejoice in) a sound (consciousness) awareness
of our subjectivity; it forces us to think about ourselves, and about
the subjectivity of the images, stories, theories, predictions—fantasies
that are everywhere. Whatever our relations to the inescapable items
dictated upon us, everyone experiences, knows that their subjective
truth is not there - is not represented.
We find ourselves, and we re-define ourselves, amidst ourselves, our
friends, colleagues, family, conscious of the subjective (joy) viewpoints,
of motives, of wishes, acts, statements, pleasure, work, and worries.
Whatever we do with our lives (mine and yours, or yours and the ones
you live with) everyday, in the surroundings that make us who we are,
that is where we make the quality of life. The subjective you, in
your subjective surroundings, living on whatever image others try
to impose on you. Imposing yourself, unknowingly, on the images others
try to impose on you. |
