Living Through the Words of the World

A self-portrait: Jovie Suganob Tuyac

What if one morning you see yourself completely lost in a world ? A world run by a powerful force of intellectual class and politics that will steal your existence by manipulating everything you do and say. A force strong enough to influence your judgement, your decision and conviction. A world ravaged by glaring corrupted freedom and absence of ground for every person to stand on for entitled rights? Isn't it a hell?

This blog post is inspired by my own work of art. A simple self-portrait using a tube made of paper from a page of a magazine, mirror , sky light and camera. With flash in off setting, I aimed the opening of the tube at the lens  and placed a mirror on the other end of it  in a slightly tilted position so that the camera can capture my EYE by not looking to the lens directly through the tube but by looking through the tube as reflected by the mirror. I hope I made it clear! From there, I decided to write a rationale based on the outcome of my curiosity.

Light is a source of life. It is a sun in our solar system and one of the stars in the universe. The light it emits is so powerful that influences the life of every animate and inanimate object. It shows the TRUTH but it can be bent to hide a LIE. It travels so fast in a certain stream but it can be stopped with just a mirror in a palm of your hand.

What you see is what you get in a mirror. It shows WHAT you are. It can stop the light from passing through to a direction but not strong enough from holding it to find a way. Mirror can be broken into pieces like a person pounded by many challenges. No matter how broken a person could be you can't underestimate his potential because a shattered mirror can break a light into thousand rays.

Truth hurts but a person can choose to see the source through his reflection instead of living in contradictions. Hell is a situation we created on earth because of the deceit we come to force by lack of knowing and dependently bargaining our soul to the beliefs of others. We live under the spectrum of truth that no one can tell to whom it may work or where and when it will survive. Truth is everyone's perception. The choice is yours whether or not to see through the lens (perceptions) and just allow the click of the camera (judgement) to capture you looking at yourself through the tube (trials) as reflected by the MIRROR.