Who Am I?
Frank Reed Larkey | February 2, 2022
Most of us seek to understand who we are – some on a concrete physical level, some on an abstract spiritual level, and some on all levels between and beyond. The creative person typically seeks to explore, describe, predict, and explain their identity as an artist either intuitively or structurally. In most cases, but not all, an artist depends on sources of authority as a framework to evaluate their own creative acts of expression. This framework, in turn, is sourced on the body of knowledge embedded in the historically derived human shared culture. Other artists, will out a formal sense of training in aesthetics, learn and grow through dialogue with their culture directly. An individual artist’s lived life and personal narrative is to a large extent “a given” – at least in the beginning. This raises the thorny issue of free will in an artist’s personal narrative.
I have developed my understanding of who I am through contemplation of the dual nature of who I am at a superordinate category of identity. I am really a “self 1” and “self 2” with the reality of my awareness in the betweenness of these two sides of the same coin analogy. Identity for me exists in this betweenness nature of the human conscious self. I am both an individual self and a social self. While I may flip the social coin many times during everyday life the reality is always going to be in between and always beyond my capabilities to understand definitively who I am.
Just as the interpretation of a given text will vary based on the reader, and the received text will remain open to interpretation since the original author is usually no longer able to express their intentions, the reality on the meaning of the text lies somewhere in between and always beyond the ultimate truth of interpretation. My opinion is the same concerning the artist and the artist’s creative expressions. I have come to understand that my identity, who I am, “is between the blinds”. My intentions and goals in creating a particular piece of art is to express my own feelings, experiences, strength, hope, and evoke shared feelings with the observer. The Reality of the Spirit, while open to the infinite possibilities of dialogical engagement, will always be encountered between this shared communication of the artist and the viewer, and therefore always open to the Beyondness of the Oneness of human reality.
Between The Blinds In Brazil
Betweenness of Points. By definition, a point B is between two other points A and C if all three points are collinear and AB +BC = AC. Although this definition is unambiguous and easy to state, it is not always easy to work with in proofs, because we may not always know what the distances AB, BC, and AC are.
