I'll Be Your Mirror

When I look at myself in the mirror, I see the least of myself.

The girl I am talking to talks about curation and imagery and childhood dreams of being an art collector. Do people curate to find what is best of who they are? Your own room. But what does that matter? A childhood room is for children. Taste isn't a game. If I were to move apartments, I wouldn't transport everything I own to my new place. I wouldn't put this picture on the exact same wall or put my guitar stand at the same angle. I would box up what's important and spray it onto my new canvas. Compression, then explosion. I think in these moments you realize what your taste is, what you deem important enough to move, despite it weighing a ton, and then the first things you lay down.

If I were to make a website, I would do this. The collapse and reveal. Like galleries. Seasonal galleries. I think that is what Silk needs. The permanent list of what you are is archival. You need to be forced to move houses. Or a playlist for certain times. But I guess I am just interested in making curation feel like me. Curation is temporary, right? Something I always think about is what a youth pastor said to me when I was younger. “You should highlight what you find important in the Bible, but I feel like I should just underline the whole thing”. I feel like I would be the type of person to have multiple Bibles. That you do need a refresh of what is important at times. That is what curation needs. A mirror doesn't show who you are, but what you are at a certain time. I guess that's why algorithms are important for sorting that, but shouldn't it be manual? Or maybe it's just the idea of temporal space. Like on my personal website, where the images are gone before you understand one. I feel like you get the idea of who I am better.

I went to a Belle and Sebastian concert in May where Stuart Murdoch said “people tell us not to get lost in music. But I say, let's do that”. I agree. Even if its a waste of time, even I don’t need to get inspired, I am going to spend all my time listening to music and looking at pretty things.