About Me
Blisters and burns from repeated exposure to owtchies can cause a thick scar formation over the wound. Sometimes, keeping out what needs to get in. Scarification is the operation of marking with scars, Cicatrization is the subsequent formation of a scar at the site of a healing wound - the healing process.
Ritual scarification is fascinating. The process of scarification involves an endurance of pain. This endurance often signifies a rite of passage and is a ritual which is itself highly significant. The exhibition explores the diversity of designs and the meanings behind these and addresses the issue of pain and focuses on the importance of the process itself.
Now, to address the whole “I Hate You, Before You Hate Me†deal (which is so very appropriately symbolized by the Shrek avatar you have chosen), I want to draw your attention to your scars.
What is ugly and unattractive to some, is considered a thing of beauty and pride among others.
I think Shrek is beautiful, and thought that the moment that I saw him tell Donkey to go away and leave him alone.
What is beauty if it is not a form of identification?
Some may see the ritual scarification and piercing of some punk on the street as a shame and a gross abuse of the body, while someone who identifies with that idealism may see that same individual as a work of art.
Many artists are afraid to share their deepest artistic desires, being that the success of their trade is directly dependent on whether or not it is considered a thing of worthwhile beauty and consideration. Many feel that the project that teases their creative processes, may not be beautiful to their chosen audience.
And then there are the artists who give birth to their own new ideal of beauty, knowing that they will most likely die a pauper and unrecognized, because the love of that said ideal is so fierce that it overpowers their need for acceptance and understanding from their peers. They do not need it, actually, because that need is satiated by their love of what they are creating.
They create a new identity.
The great ones take what may be considered unattractive by others and make it into a thing of beauty.
Shrek took his own ugliness and made it the ideal, and by the end of the movie, the viewer found themselves identifying with the beauty of the Ogre. And he did this ALL without compromising who he was….A crabby, impatient, antisocial, simple Ogreton.
I wonder if my scars will one day be considered a thing of beauty? I wonder if you will see yours as such, also.
Time and perseverance will tell, I suppose.
