Exquisite Corpse: Inherited corpse..

Hello, hello =]

Ok, so...I inherited Jessie's corpse, which was a little daunting because I LOVED her work. And Eva's writing, which Jessie expanded on was brilliant too, so add this to the fact I was having one of those weeks where I just didn't even know where to begin and you have me fretting.

Jessie wrote of Dominick Lacapra's lecture where he spoke of "a self preservative step back to safety", and this got me thinking about this crazy world we live in and how out of our depths we can often feel. The ladies and I were talking the other day about the way cities like New York can make you feel like your suffocating because there are just so many people and you are constantly surrounded by people, and I thought it would be good to look at the aspect of leaving that crowd and that crush in order to keep yourself alive.

I found a qoute from the Cuban activist Jose Marti - "An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self preservation".

This made me realise that inside everyone is that switch that makes us keep going and to move forward in order to survive. This is more relevant, for me anyway, in todays society where I often feel like everything is moving too fast and I'm almost drowning in a sea of people yet not one of them can hear me. But I keep moving. Sometimes I get upset, sometimes I scream out, but I always keep moving.

So here are some images. I would really like to do more of these in the colour processing labs, doubling up the negatives and so on. But for now they are done with good ol' DigiSLR, and words added on the computer. The words are phrases and thoughts that really struck me about self preservation and at the same time being left behind.