Red Studies​

Reimagined Sections

2018

STUDY 5  Red Studies  5.1 – 5.3, Photo Ink & Pen 

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'Failure. Invisibility.

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I found my pen tracing and circling these two words in my journal, after a conversation in class left me thinking. Both share an interesting, complex and intertwined relationship.

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Failure, synonymously opposed to success. Success — visible, definitive, conclusive, realising its recorded social mark and visibility. Failure — invisible, ambiguous, anonymous, occupying a shadow narrative that  lies unseen and unheard.

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Invisibility — failing in its lack of definitiveness; obscurely blurring into ambiguity 

Invisibility — failing in its absence of language, in missed articulation.

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When grappling with the blanks and absences of markers and words, where do we begin  to communicate, define or encapsulate the imperceptible?

 

What happens when language fails us?"

 

- Excerpt, "Essentialy Normal Studies", Skin Stories*

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