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October 01, 2007
Collections
The word collection evokes many senses for me. I think of things and even people coming together from different groups to compose a whole. They come from various subcategories to form one bigger category. Their place of origin may be the same but each is still unique so that when you look at each component you can recognize difference.
At the moment, I am thinking of my chakra bracelet. Each bead is representative, and like a metaphor for one of the seven chakras. They form into a multicolored circular pattern around my wrist; each bead I’d like to think, plays an important role in keeping me balanced. That is, as these beads are joined into a collection, they serve a larger purpose.
A few weeks ago, the bracelet somehow broke on my way out of class. I didn’t know what had happened until I saw tiny splashes of color shoot up into the air. One of my friends jokingly said she thought skittles were being sprayed from my arm. Some beads fell into the crevices of the ground and some I have no idea where they wound up. Before I struggled to recapture the beads I couldn’t help but notice the beautiful pattern they made on the cement. They had fallen off the string to which they had been attached for two years and to see them as separate and individual felt unfamiliar. I viewed them in their pre-collection form; their loose and linear form. The roundness was gone. I had just witnessed them changing shape, and I couldn’t help but feel saddened by their sudden transformation.
Posted by pbali at October 1, 2007 01:19 AM