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| Leaving Napoli #1, August 22, 2013 |
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| Leaving Napoli #2, August 22, 2013 |
When
you enter a place for such a short period of time, you inevitably feel the
separation, the distance, and the disconnect from the culture that resides
there. You are in fact a stranger and this embodiment allows you access to the
fact that we are in reality strangers to ourselves. When we remain in the
safety and comfort of our own culture we are blind to the reality of our
personal disconnect. As Walter Shear states in his essay that culture has
engulfed us as a species, "so
pervasive is its purview at present that much of the time culture succeeds in
totally absorbing the human animal" (Shear p. 149). In this absorption we
are blinded and do not face our estrangement to ourselves and life honestly.
Clifford Geertz sums this thought up well when he says, " We are
incomplete or unfinished animals who complete or finish ourselves through
culture" (Shear p. 148).
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| Full Moon Over Livorno #1, August 27, 2013 |
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| Full Moon Over Livorno #2, August 27, 2013 |
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| Full Moon Over Livorno #3, August 27, 2013 |
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