I feel like I remember this from somewhere. Some artist or painting or sculpture. I find it disturbing. Maybe it's a comment on people wearing masks. People putting up a front or facade. But at the same time their inner self, their real self is always below. Struggling in one or another to be free. To be seen. To be heard. To take over. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Do we put up barriers so we can interact with people, to be safe, or do we put them up to conform, to play by the rules, to be 'normal'. Or is it simply that most of us don't really know ourselves all that well. We hide something we don't really understand.
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask." -Jim Morrison
"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self." -Brendan Francis
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