How much do thoughts weigh?

 

 

HOW MUCH DO THOUGHTS WEIGH is a part of the photo and installation project „Dichotomie“.

It is a self-study and analysis about the diversity, the complexity and the different personalities that a human being can have.

The project works on different levels and uses different tools and mediums to visualize the inner world and make the unseen seen.

 

 

The weight of your thoughts

Running and chasing

Sometimes clear as the sky

Sometimes like a toxic fog

Following you everywhere

All the time

From the moment you get up

Until they let you sleep

Barely

 

 

They follow you in your dreams

They chase you

Confuse you

They blind you

A light in the tunnel

Hidden in the dark

A solar eclipse

Living in the inner world

While the outer world seems far away

 

 

The body is their cage

The skin is their shell

Flying and twirling around

As they come and go

As fast as the light

They hit like a stroke

And have a strong after taste

 

 

You carry that weight

The weight of your thoughts

The weight of yourself

They slow you down

You stumble and fall

disoriented and lost

In a  maze of your thoughts

But you don’t know the way.

You don’t even know yourself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Break Free

 

BREAK FREE is a part of the photo and installation project „Dichotomie“.

It is a self-study and analysis about the diversity, the complexity and the different personalities that a human being can have.

The project works on different levels and uses different tools and mediums to visualize the inner world and make the unseen seen.

 

 

Often we do not choose the skin we are born in

We do not choose what happens to us and how it happens

Our softness transforms as we harden on

From the inside out

And layer by layer we change

We hide

We protect ourselves

Our self build cocoon can help us develop

But it can also slow us down

It is our comfort zone and is the border between our world and the outer world

Some people decide to stay hidden and protected

In the warmth of their own safety

Others decide to grow

And when the time is right they break free and let go of the past

And fly towards the sun of their future

And then there are the ones who turned into stone

Who froze and fell into a long lasting sleep that became their new reality

Often they can not choose to wake up by themselves

They might not even know that they are dreaming

Sleep walking through the outer world

Coexisting in different lives

Who will set them free?

 

Only with time we know which cocoon was chosen for us

Only with time we can tell who we became

What transformation we went through and who we turned into

Some things can be changed and others are irreversible

We look back and all we see are the broken pieces of our sell that we left behind