Personal Essays

I could have taken stock of what I had and tried to make sense of the many attributes that may or may not have reinforced the whole concept, but I didn’t.

I could have wondered how each individual attribute fit into the scheme as a whole, but I didn’t

I could have questioned how the whole puzzle would fit together. The attributes were separate little boxes. Which boxes were important and which weren’t? But I didn’t care.

I could have neatly ordered them, only to discover that I was forcing an artificial relationship between the little boxes, but I didn’t have to.

I told myself I would not over analyze; this was supposed to be art, not a scientific experiment.