Free of the illusion of the shelters we once saw as protecting us, we discover the true resources that were there all along, however buried, stifled, or censored they may have been.
All tagged you are your own
Free of the illusion of the shelters we once saw as protecting us, we discover the true resources that were there all along, however buried, stifled, or censored they may have been.
Reconstruction is complicated. Plenty of the process will take us into the shadows. If we don’t deal with trauma, we will perpetuate the cycle of it, weaponize it, and even develop an unhealthy dependence on it for a new identity, living only from our pain… Reconstruction is so worth it. But it’s tough. It can be frustrating. And it’s hard work.
In certain religious ways of seeing the world, it can be easy to mistake presence for transcendence. We struggle to fully embody our own experiences in the ‘here and now’ when everything is made to be ‘the somewhere else and the not yet.’ It turns out that being fully intimate with our own experience can be difficult when we have to filter everything through an “eternal” worldview. When that’s you, you end up holding each moment at arm’s length. And a lack of full presence doesn’t just diminish our experience of the world, but our engagement in the world.
For our season premier, we pivot from where we’ve been to lean more on where we are, and where we’re headed. In three stories of birth and rebirth, we look to the attribution of our targets once we’re on the other side. This is an episode of children, of parents, and of middle space. Of generations… and emancipations.