PsycheScapes: Selfies #1 to infinity
'I had once been splintered into a million beings and objects. Today I am one; tomorrow I shall splinter again. . .But I knew that all were notes of one and the same harmony'. Nabokov, V. (1920).
'Multiplicity is our first characteristic; unity our second. As your parts know they are parts of you, so must you know that we are parts of humanity'. Theodore Sturgeon (1953).
PsycheScapes is series of digital images that have been manipulated to render the material source of the image obscured whilst the immaterial source of the image is offered up to the act of imagination and free association.
In the era of selfies I have been thinking of these abstractions as a series of selfies that speak to the representation of the inner self and its ever changing nature. The surface selfie speaks to so little of us.
In his book Standing in Spaces relational psychoanalyst Philip Bromberg states that “health is the ability to stand in the spaces between realities without losing any of them—the capacity to feel like one self while being many.” “Standing in the Spaces” is a shorthand way of describing a person's relative capacity to make room at any given moment for subjective reality that is not readily containable by the self he experiences as “me” at that moment. It is what distinguishes creative imagination from both fantasy and concreteness, and distinguishes playfulness from facetiousness. Some people can ‘stand in the spaces’ better than others”.
