ZOËLAB: THE LIFE AS ART BLOG
Zippered Self
To return is to begin again.
Sorting out the selves,
In holdable piles.
ZOELAB DAY 356
Date of Original Post: August 22, 2013
To return is to begin again.
Sorting out the selves,
In holdable piles.
I try them all on at once.
They fit, sort of.
But then again, it’s too many selves to know.
Removing them, I start from scratch.
This is the place to begin again.
In between two worlds.
The large culture and the small.
Both, with their imposing language of distraction,
knock me down.
But there is more than that,
there is this thing I am doing,
something radical and secret and quiet
something so very mine,
that I dare not say it.
Identity is a flimsy and beautiful thing.
It is a symbol suit to wear for others.
I try it on and zip it up.
Not ready yet for meaning,
I lie down,
ready to receive the rain.
After all, I have a body that speaks to me
inside
with messages that reach beyond cultures.
The body knows more than the
flimsy zippered self.
Meta Lab: Definition
Inspired by yesterday’s post about both/and I have created a one sentence description of ZOELAB that includes pretty much everything that it needs to include.
ZOELAB DAY 106
Date of Original Post: December 15, 2012
I’ve been working hard, staying up way too late, working on the new additions to the ZOELAB website experience. I’ve been excited about it, excited to share it. Just now, I hit publish. It’s uploading as I type this. Part of what I want to add to the new website is the ABOUT page. It’s really held me up because I’ve found it so difficult to describe what this project is because it’s so many things all at once. Since the day I conceived this project, I have kept a giant and growing list of all the different titles and descriptions for what ZOELAB is. I couldn’t possibly fit everything into one title or description. My solution was to call it ZOELAB (Lucas’ idea) and then having a running list of alternate descriptions on the upper left hand corner of the masthead. However, I want to have something a little more descriptive on the ABOUT page.
Inspired by yesterday’s post about both/and I have created a one sentence description of ZOELAB that includes pretty much everything that it needs to include.
I am considering swapping out what’s written on the about page for this. Or perhaps, I will just link to this page on the ABOUT page. I imagine this sentence will continue to be adjusted:
Does that about sum it up, or did I miss something? Let me know what you think.