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what'd the lemon do to you?
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good one. :) love it drjoanne
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@brilliant: ...it exists in a perpetual state of sourness... perhaps I discriminate against it - knowing that it is in it's nature to be sour.
...thanks, trigger.
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That's the way I'm feeling about now...
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... and it's a fucked up feeling, no doubt.
...to attempt to relate to a lemon.... or to insult it, at least.
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oh! your russian period!
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Rolf: are you referring to the fatalism and the alienation? ;)
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Don Ladron Harris [deleted] says:
:)
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just letting you know i saw this one :) you are loved in all your flickr identity obscurity.
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just letting you know i saw this one :) you are loved in all your flickr identity obscurity, by hundreds i'm sure... it's good to see you are constantly living up to your admiration!
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Sam: It's 2:06 AM here... took this photo earlier, when I felt crazed... 'identity obscurity' - I like that. You know, I was just talking with someone about depersonalization (loosely defined as a feeling of unreality and of estrangement from the self, body or surroundings) and how the psychiatric community is researching this 'phenomenon' to see if there are enough symptoms in the constellation to create the criteria for an actual disorder. I read an article speculating about some of the possible reasons why more and more of this dissociative state of being, if you will, is being reported in general physician's offices, for example... per this article, " some speculate that one's endless choices of entertainment outlets eat away at our grounded self..." "...people are walking around with MP3 players or cell phones, being absorbed in the vivid fantasy world of television and video games in a way that causes someone's immediate surroundings to drop away, and disappear..." "also, modern society exposes us to so many situations that demand different ways of presenting ourselves - we act one way with family, another with friends, another at work - that it makes it hard to figure out who we really are."
So, sometimes I do feel that my grounded sense of self, my ego, my essence, perhaps... is a bit blurred... hence all the different explorations of the self and the self in context... and hence 'the obscurity' (to get back to your original and astute observation)....
...and, just as an aside... this photo is supposed to represent such an utterly absurd alienation (maybe even a depersonalization) that the subject in the photo is having a relationship with a lemon. A sad state of affairs, I agree.
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so tv and p3 players are responsible for todays problems. very funny.
it is typical russian expressionism. or something like that.
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Sour, yes, but I love lemonade. Perhaps psychiatry itself could be described as a disorder.
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"...we act one way with family, another with friends, another at work - that it makes it hard to figure out who we really are."
It seems be most drastic when there is a significant schism between the selfs presented in these different situations, especially when the selfs are contradictory. I have sometimes wondered if the act of retreating into splendid isolationism of being catered to by video on demand, our mp3 players, and even social networking sites is an attempt to find a comfortable zone where we can begin to establish the self without having to run the gauntlet of these conflicting personalities. Must hunt down that article...
(afterthought) oh...and the photo is great. too...nice lighting. :)
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Your face'll freeze like that.
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DrJ - I can definitely relate to the concept of depersonalisation at times... Strangely enough, I'm currently researching my novel (based on the parallel lives of hitler and charlie chaplin, and both their attitudes to artistry) and within looking at hitler, it's strange to see how sometimes even he wasn't himself. For example his claims of anti-semitism from a young age have been challenged by those who knew him in those years, also his distinct lack of 'arian qualities' (there's an entire novel in that alone, hitler as the wretched, irredeemable so therefore free of judgement of moral persecution, trying to save the arians (of which he wasn't one))
Another thing worth looking at if you haven't thought of it already, is the society of the spectacle as theorised by debord (and many others), but rather than looking at the idea of reacting to a spectacle, perhaps more the situationist idea of creating a spectacle from what already exists. Maybe the idea of mp3 players is not so far off from there, we create our own soundtrack, atmosphere, mood and isolation from the mundane and in doing so, re-imagine the landscape in which we indulge daily?
just something to think of.
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right back at ya.....
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re: media, though -- in some way, don't all of these choices help us to be MORE ourselves? I feel it's been like that for me. We don't have to listen to narrow-band pop radio, or watch the same TV proram as everyone else. When I was a kid it was either that, or nothing. Now, we can choose what we live with.
I love the photo series, anyway, Joanne! ad I realize you weren't just talking about media, but about the way in which we fashshion different identities for ourselves and lose our core. i do agree with that.
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I ♥ the expression taken. Shit happens.
GRTZ,BEN
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Fantastic self portrait. I have found myself instantly enamored of your stream. Wonderful, thought provoking comments here too. Thank you.
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Joan, ...haven't visited for some time and am so pleased to be back to see what you have been up to. most creative work. Truly a pleasure to see and visit and revisit.
M
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i love this SOOOOOOOOOOOO much. how expressive! although i like lemons (quite a lot too), so i don't agree with that, but this is hilarious! you remind me of a little kid.
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made me laugh like a drain. thanks jo.
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You look like a six-year-old who doesn't want to eat her bussels sprouts, but can't leave the table until she does.
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Doc, you've been blogged. I really enjoy your work, and hope more folks continue to enjoy it too.
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Indeed. I have been blogged - and what kind words to go along. Thanks, Toj, thanks :D
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Portrait★Faces: (the cream of...), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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