All humans are prone to adopting the actor's calling — it is, afterall, a deeply ingrained, even unconscious survival technique. For most the role adopted at home as husband, wife, sibling, roommate, is rather different than the front employed for political battles, turf wars, and wheel greasing in the cubicle farms and restaurants where we toil.
So too do we take on yet other nuanced behaviors seemingly mandated by societal expectations in a myriad of variegated public settings . . . queuing up for movies, enduring entrapment in traffic jams, riding elevators (how vital it is to focus intensely on the indicated progress floor-by-floor!).
Presented then, unexpectedly arranged and discovered in a cavernous warehouse of discarded artifacts, is a splendid diorama of higher ego, guarded mask, and perhaps — just possibly — a glimpse of an authentic Self beneath it all. Small wonder it is challenging to keep it all together.
Defensive Psychosis, #0995-7D
© 2011 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.
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Details: July 24, 2011; Canon 7D; f/5 @ 1/197 sec; —1/3 EV; ISO 100; Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
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