"Quellwasser"
"Society is a fancy-dress ball by whom everyone is hiding its true nature and through this it reveals itself".
(Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803 – 1882 | am. philosopher and poet)
I ask myself, who forces us to wear masks? Society, our immediate environment, our families, friends, ourselves? Who are we? How thick are the walls that we built around us? Openness surly reveals tenderness, though this is the point of our true being. Everything else is like a prologue of a book: twaddle, not the book itself.
Image in the sense of prestige doesn’t allow enough deepness and sensitiveness, because it’s the shell around the nut. At least this is what I feel about it. Image is something what makes us adjusted and conform to society, personal environment and situations. It holds us away from our true potential, I believe.
Image has become a very fashionable term, something some people wear like a piece of cloth. The opposite sides of image in my eyes are naturalism, personal freedom and informality.
Tenderness seems rare or better, the bravery to live according to our inner voice. It's worth to show.
Written by Jana Buchholz| extract of my final exam with the subject "image" | 2003