Diptych Project, Self-Portraits Karmen Meyer Diptych Project, Self-Portraits Karmen Meyer

Diptych Project #9

black and white self-portrait of a women standing the trees. Her face blocked by the blur of a moving branch.

CAMOUFLAGE

the shadows of two hands reach toward eachother, nearly touching.

CONNECTION?

How messy is too messy? We all know that life isn’t perfect. That tolerance is a necessity for thriving and growing.

But when does tolerance slip into deception. Into abandonment of self.

Is it my fault

that I felt uncomfortable and detached? A square peg in a round hole.

After so many years. Is there even any hope of re-writing the programming of such formative relationships?

My gut say no. Or is that my fear?

How am I to know?

What is worth the fight.

I can’t do it all. I can’t be something that I am not.

And I am not a liar.

 
 
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