I spend a lot of time thinking about who people really are and what their significance is to me. Obviously I interact with people every day and the thoughts and actions of others influence my own life, but to what point should I let it? I like things with complex layers that may or may not be found; paintings drawn on top of other paintings, puzzles within puzzles, but people are different. People are not something to be "solved" as we often like to pretend we can. A lot of the time I wonder about how much I should care, how much should it matter what other people say or think, what impact should they have on my life?
How different would things be if everyone looked the same? What if it was publicly accepted that all anyone every showed was a facade? What if no one cared about the workings underneath the skin, if all that counted was what you let on and that was accepted with no questions?
Someday I'd like to see a whole crowd of people with paper bags over their heads. On these bags each person would draw exactly how they want people to think they feel. If this was all you could see, how would your perceptions of people change?
Excellent, I just came up with a photo idea.
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