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Are we mirrors or are we walls?

Birds of a feather flock together. We are only the sum of all those around us. But if we are all mirrors, then what are we reflecting? Maybe we're all facing some secret center and reflecting reflections of the generations before us who are all reflecting the reflections of the generations that came before them who are all reflecting the reflections of... and so on and so on. Reality would soon take on the shape of an onion if this were so. The only difference would be that our freshest, youngest flesh would be toward the outside and the oldest layers near the center. This way there would have to be more cells every generation and therefore more reflections and more angles of the preceding reflections reflected than in generations before. So we'd be constantly propelling ourselves away from the center. Well, if we work our way toward the center, what would we see? Inevitably, we would come upon one single point that all other points revolve around, much like the structure of an atom or of solar systems. What would this center be? God? The great Mind? The true Self? And on the contrary, if we are all walls then we lose our holy transience and become stagnant beings not working to or from any center, but instead holding fast to our born positions. We would be stubborn and ill prepared for change. Our lives would be a constant struggle against gravity whose metaphysical counter part is entropy. In myself I see the qualities of a wall and of a mirror. In the people around me I see different and unique ratios of wall/mirror personalities. So my inadequate, fence-walking solution to this problem is that nothing is so black and white. Everything exists in shades of gray. We are mirrors and we are walls. Our personalities change constantly. Even physically! Our cells completely regenerate every seven years. And at the same time there is something so solidified in us that we are always ourselves, even if we can't define concepts such as “Self.” This is the permanence of our holy transience. We are riddles against ourselves in this paradoxical existence.

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from Translations, released October 21, 2012

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idXed // Idea Defined is a solo project based solely out of mind. Taking influence from trips to dreams, grind to trip hop, from poetry to paintings and noise to ambiance its aim is to be as free of form as it is strange in style. ... more

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