Much like us, the pathways are hidden. You must search. Much like always, you begin at the beginning. Inspect each word.
Final Project Proposal
To create a liminal home. To explore the borders. To house the bi-anything, showcase the divisions, highlight the fractions. To exist in a space that fits, finally, wholly. To deny the notion that between = flaw. To deny that you need anyone or anything to make you whole, or that being intermediate or indeterminate is a defect.
We mark objects by their adjectives, note that green tea is actually a light tawny hue, except in Chinese restaurants. That the refracting light off of ice creates an unnatural electric teal in the Alaskan glacier, the same as toilet cleaner, or melted blue lollipops. But to produce white light, one must combine all three primary colors.
I was raised colorless with the fear of ambiguity rooted in not being recognized by my own. Skin whitening creams couldn't produce this fairness -- my aunt called me lucky. It is easier to identify the base object than the tint of the glass in front of it.
The human condition necessitates compartmentalization. When filling out paperwork, we are asked: Name; Ethnicity; Sex; etc. How many times has "Other" been checked? In "post-racial" America, bi-racial and multi-ethnic boxes have yet to pervade, but we are growing. Queer and agender is yet to be seen. But we are everywhere. What does it mean to identify liminally?
We are constantly in between spaces: the bus, the car, the airport, the hallway, the window, the doorframe. They are spaces that separate, that divide, but how many seconds have I spent in them? We forget that these are places, too – that one can be in(side) transition.
The body is still known in the dark, known better; a poem without the blind feeling for surfaces of recognition. The anatomy of a poem is known immediately, and must be autopsied. Rooted in the words themselves: chromosome, derivative of chroma: color, some: body. In images: fluorescent x-ray where white stands for skeletal existence and black for lack thereof. Tautological language is different from tautological theory. The difference is frequency. A statement is never false. The body doesn’t disappear in the dark. The dark never disappears in the body.
Between fact and fiction, there is poetry. Between here and there is the Self. Between these boxes, there we are.
The presentation talk was given to explain the meaning of the website to me, personally. There are instructions in the parentheses for which paths to choose. Think of it as a guide.