Truth
Why
Ultimately, the truth has to be our own. We need to look until we find that easy, stable space of certain. Even if each of us reaches the same universal truth, we must find it ourselves or it isn’t ours. We write our own story even if it is the only story.
Do you recognize the words written on these walls? “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…” It is the nonsense text used to fill empty spaces in graphic design before the intended text is added. To find our truth we need to recognize, and ignore, the nonsense.
The scene in the doorway was inspired by those Italian Renaissance portraits with landscapes in the background (Like the Mona Lisa.) But this landscape includes a prison. On the journey to our truth, we need to avoid the constraints of other people’s ideas.
We seek to find - to find peace, fulfillment, joy. Although we can learn from those who came before us, the truth isn’t true until we integrate it, sharpen our pencil, and commit to it.
How
Ipsum lorem is from the internet!
I made the parchment by taking printer paper, crumpling it, soaking it in coffee, drying it in the oven, and tearing it. I photographed it in the dollhouse in the position you see in the image.
Pencil and shavings - I actually had to buy a pack of #2 pencils at the dollar store - who has manual pencils sitting around anymore? And for the shavings I managed to find a pencil sharpener made for makeup pencils. When Liv modeled for this image, she was holding a giant pencil I bought at an after-Holloween sale.
The prison - California Men’s Colony in San Louis Obispo, photographed from a train window. Note: this prison is known for its social programs, including Arts in Corrections, "designed to rehabilitate inmates through art." So even if we do get ourselves tangled up, there is a way out.
Doll dress - Ebay
Setting - dollhouse purchased at Circa
