Absurdity

A thing being as equally and oppositely defined by that which it is not as much as by what it provably is (or consensually appears to be), the absence of its opposite is the simultaneous presence of its psychological, cultural and technologically-mediated self. Facilitated by conveniences of Gestalt illusion, familiar enough to student artists but still, it seems, largely and widely unknown or unacknowledged.

It’s a nod to Lacan’s mirror that inflates and sustains the grounding and adaptive growth of identity in a generally inarticulable metaphysics. This leads to a discussion of absurdity, war, meaningless argument and the tautological self-validation and serial indeterminacy of a counterfactually inaccessible Other that, in some mischievous way, assures meaning and continuity of Self. Epistemological assurance is, similarly, built upon shifting sands.